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"Skippy"



On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Tetanurae wrote:

> One more thing....  Tom Holtz said he wanted to nickname Scipionyx 'Skippy the
> dino.'  This just will not do....  In Italian, the letter combo s-c-i should
> be said like the English shi, not ski.  So no skippy-saurus!

I think it already has a nickname in Italy: "Ciro". Could be wrong, but
that's what someone from Italy wrote me.

--T. Mike Keesey
tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu
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