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Re: last comment about pronunciation of saurus



On 6/7/06, Sebastian Apesteguia <sebapesteguia@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
jejeje...Jaime, I swear is my last contribution on
this subject 'cause I think is almost like discuss on
religion and I'm tired, but if I'm not wrong in what I
remember from my greek lessons, lizard is actually
sauros, pronunciated "sah-bros".
So none is wright, jejeje.
Sebastian

The modern Greek pronunciation is indeed something like "SAH-vross", but what's used in biological nomenclature is Latinized ancient Greek, in which it's "SOW-ross".

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Andreas Johansson

Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?