Re: Pronounciation of Giganotosaurus

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

>> If "dinosaur" means "terrible reptile" and "Deinonychus" means "terrible 
>> claw," and if both come from the Greek, why aren't they spelled and 
>> pronounced similarly? We also have "Deinocheirus" and "Deinodon" so 
>> maybe we should have "deinosaur" instead of "dinosaur." :-)
>> 

Or "Deinotopia" instead of "Dinotopia", which, incidentally, means "terrible
place"!
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