Re: Fukuiraptor (Re: Details on Microraptor)

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ken Kinman wrote:

> 
>      On the other hand, I fear the name Fukuiraptor will be the source of 
> some jocular mispronunciations (intentional or not).  Not familiar with much 
> Japanese, but I would guess it should be:  Foo-kwee-RAP-tur.

Using IPA-ASCII (see
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html), the first
part should be (Japanese) /Fukui/ (three syllables; first consonant does
not occur in English) and (then Latin) /'r[aptor[/. Of course, this will
probably be Americanized as /'fu<w>kwi<j>,r.&ptR/ or possibly
/,fu<w>'ku<w>i<j>,r.&ptR/

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