Re: pronunciation question

[Glen Ledingham <glenled@yahoo.com>]

The best guide for modern names is probably TV
interviews with the authors.  I was surprised at the
pronunciation of Deinonychus, but I now try to
pronounce it as the author intended.

Maybe we should try to persuade the networks that such
interviews would be a public service essential to
furthering our science.

Glen Ledingham

--- Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> wrote:


> 
> As to the pronunciation of dinosaur names, there is
> no hard-and-fast rule on 
> this - unless the author(s) specifically
> prescribe(s) a pronunciation for 
> the new dinosaur name.  Alas, this doesn't happen
> too often, so we're left 
> to wonder how the original author(s) intended their
> names to be pronounced.