Re: Paralititan pronunciation

[Josh Smith <smithjb@sas.upenn.edu>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:

>
> The question of how the name would have been pronounced in Classical
> Greek is
> sticky.  For starters, it's not quite exactly a Greek compound.  The
> connector vowel for Greek compounds is -o-, not -i- as in Latin;
> hence,
> paral-O-titan (sorry, Josh).
>

No biggy, but interesting as the people I checked with said it was i.



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