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Re: ORNITHODESMUS & STEGOSAURS



Wow. I spend 2 weeks with my grandparents and find 2 new dinosaurs in my
mail when I come home...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:02 PM

> Neues Jahrbuch für
> Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, heft 11: 670-680.

Looks like someone got confused by the sudden occurrence of sh in German...
it's a coincidence in the literal sense: Monat = month, -s = -'s (in order
to connect the words somehow), Heft = well, notebook/exercise book (French:
cahier), -e = plural ending of many nouns. S and h are therefore pronounced
separately. And while I am at it, nouns are always capitalized, and there
are no separate rules for headlines.

:-)

Condolences to the blackout victims!