Re: Laelaps help

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:


> > etc.  For "aetosaur," I often hear "ah-EE-toh-sawr" or "ay-EE-toh-sawr," but
> > I've always contended it's just "EE-toh-sawr."
>
> But the ë goes back all the way to the original Greek.

...by which David means that this ae sequence is not a diphthong 
originally, but two separate syllables:  a.e.to.sau.rus.

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