Fw: Doing an "Ultraraptor"

[Thomas de Wilde <jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com>]

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From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
>   *Kentrosaurus* was consistered "too similar" to *Centrosaurus* (despite
> being spelled differently, they were pronounced identically), so we got
> *Kentrurosaurus* (Kentro was named second). Oddly enough, their names mean
> the exact same thing and have the same meaning, _kentron_ being Greek for
> the spike or spur in the center of a shield, but the spelling was
> "softened" for use as a Latin combination, just as _sauros_ was changed to
> _saurus_. This is the only example I know of where a name was changed due
> to homophony. The current prevailing pronounciation of *Centrosaurus*
> follows this softening (SEN-tro-SAWR-us), so the homophony is not so
> apparent, but as in saying "pachyKEPHalosaurs," Greek has no soft "C," and
> use of the "C" approximates Latin's "S."

Actually Latin's C was always pronounced K, or did I misunderstand something
here?
and wasn't Centrosaurus once renamed Eucentrosaurus?

Thomas