Re. When Dinosaurs Ruled China

["Christopher Lavers" <Chris.Lavers@nottingham.ac.uk>]

>Mike Taylor wrote:
>(I shan't swiftly forget when I met Ray Stanford
>and he mentioned Die-NON-i-kus, and it took me several seconds to
>realise that he was talking about the animal I'd known for years as
>Die-noe-NYE-kus.)

Funny - I've always pronounced it Die-NON-i-kus despite living in blighty. What 
really annoys me, however, is people who pronounce 'bront-' as 'apat-'. Doesn't 
even begin with an 'a'.