Re: My Pet Dinosaur - Re: If the asteroid had missed...

[John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au>]

Not in New Zealand. They only have one vowel ("i"), so please send  
those extras back to them...

On 15/03/2007, at 9:31 AM, Steve Walsh wrote:

> Please, we of the antipodes have too many vowels in our words already.
>
> At 07:49 AM 15/03/2007, you wrote:
> > I believe that "Palaeontologist" is the standard British/Aussie, etc.
> > spelling
> >
> > Patti Kane-Vanni
> > pkv1@erols.com <mailto:pkv1@erols.com> or paleopatti@hotmail.com
> > <mailto:paleopatti@hotmail.com>
> > http://groups.msn.com/DinosaurandFossilDigs
> > <http://groups.msn.com/DinosaurandFossilDigs>
> >
> > "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small  
> > people
> > always do that, but really great ones make you feel that you too,  
> > can become
> > great." - Mark Twain
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On  
> > Behalf Of
> > Nick Pharris
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:02 PM
> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Subject: Re: My Pet Dinosaur - Re: If the asteroid had missed...
> >
> >
> > Quoting mkirkaldy@aol.com:
> >
> > > Did anyone see this program on BBC's Horizon?  "My Pet Dinosaur" is
> > > evidently what the news release stories were based on.  Funny  
> > review
> > > of the program at:
> > >
> > http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/lastnighttv/display.var. 
> > 1256433.0.0.php
> >
> > "At the other extreme was the palaeonotologist who'd been Jurassic
> > Park's dino-consultant."
> >
> > Palaeonotologist?  Is that someone who studies ancient backs, or the
> > ancient south?
> >
> > --
> > Nick Pharris
> > Department of Linguistics
> > University of Michigan
> >
> > "Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
> >      --Edwin H. Land
>
> Steve Walsh
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
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hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122