Re: When Dinosaurs Ruled China

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

    Mike Taylor said:

    "...(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 [sic] that he was
talking about the animal I'd known for years as Die-noe-NYE-kus.)"

    The way Mike thought he heard me pronounce it would be the one provided
in DINOSAUR ENCYCLOPEDIA (1993, Don Lessem and Donald F. Glut), wherein the
pronunciation is given as, "dye-NON-i-kus".  I actually try to pronounce the
name a little differently, as "dein-ONIK-us", in an attempt to stress the
ONYX (which is Greek for claw) part of the name, but being one who always
speaks rapidly, it probably sounded the way Mike thought I said it.

    If one wants to have some listening fun, hang out at an SVP annual
conference listening for the differences various professionals may give to
certain dinosaur names.  In some cases, there seems little consensus.

    Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery