Pronunciations

[kodiak@inetworld.net (T.A. Curtis)]

>Giganotosaurus sounding like "gigantic", they pronounced it like
>it was the Irish dancing

    I saw an Argentinian paleontologist (I don't think it was Bonaparte) on
CNN pronounce it:  JEE-ga-NOT-ah-saurus.

>Carcharodontosaurus sounded that the
>coughing dinosaur.

   I think its:  kar-KAR-ah-DONT-ah-saurus.

   But I could be wrong.  :-)


T.A. Curtis
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