Re: Erlic/kosaurus

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-05-29 17:29:51 EDT, jrw6f@faraday.clas.virginia.edu
writes:

>Is it possible that the Russian version spelling was a
>typesetter/editor error (since we all know that "c" in Cyrillic is
>always soft, and "k" is used exclusively for the hard sound)?

So you would say the authors originally spelled it _Erlicosaurus_, but
an editor saw the "c," figured the name would be mispronounced
AIR-liss-uh-SAW-rus, and changed it to a "k"? Interesting theory.