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