Re: sore-ISK-ee-an or ...

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

> Is "sawr-ISH-ee-an" a definite no-no? I notice than in many books,
> the pronunciation of "-saur" is often spelled "phonetically" as
> "-sawr."
> 
> ----- Amado Narvaez
>       anarvaez@umd5.umd.edu
> 

I suppose this is similar to the pronounciation of the word 'schedule' 
which, in English, is pronounced 'shedule' and in ameri-speak is 
pronounce 'skedule'.


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

The first law of Geology is the law of supposition.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)