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Re: last comment about pronunciation of saurus



On 6/8/06, Jerry D. Harris <jharris@dixie.edu> wrote:
>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".

    Whatever...but just because SOME Greeks pronounce it this way NOW
doesn't mean that ALL Greeks at ALL times pronounced it this way.

If you *read* what I write before replying, you'd probably make more sense.

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Andreas Johansson

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