Pronouncing dinosaur names

[Horridus]

Right, so, how do different people pronounce different dinosaur names? (Genera only please or we'll be here all day.)

The pronounciation of certain names does seem to vary from person to person. As I've said elsewhere, I've heard Deinonychus as 'Dine-on-ih-kus' and 'Dine-oh-nike-us', and Diplodocus as 'Dip-low-doe-kus' and 'Dip-lod-oh-kus'. Equally Parasaurolophus as 'Para-saur-oh-loaf-us' and 'Para-saur-ol-oh-fus'.*

Any more for any more? Otherwise, you know, this thread will die horribly.

*I use the second of all of these pairs.

[sbell]

Tie-ran-oh-sew-russ

vs

Tier-ahn-oh-sew-russ

[Horridus]

I've NEVER heard that second one before. Always Tie-ran-oh-saw-rus....(or the first one)

[rugops]

I normaly say it Ter-ahn-oh-saur-us

[DinoLord]

I say it Ty-ran-oh-soar-us.

I imagine the confusion Fukuisaurus and Fukuiraptor cause.

[wheezy]

i pronounce them just like the second versions you have listed as well. However i have heard scientists pronounce para saur ol oh fus as para saur o low fus which just sounds like bad enunciation to me.

[sbell]

May 22, 2010 22:45:36 GMT DinoLord said:

I say it Ty-ran-oh-soar-us.

I imagine the confusion Fukuisaurus Fukuiraptor cause.

What about Stegosaurus (Steg-oh-saw-rus) vs. Stegoceras (Steg-oh-Sair-Ahs)?

Of course, if you get all 'old school', then a 'C' in a Greek word should be pronounced like a 'K', and the confusion gets a little easier.

[Griffin]

For the ones initually mentioned mine are as follows

di-PLOD-ocus

dei-NON-ochus

parasaur-OLO-phus

I also favor PSITT-icosaurus over psi-TAC-osaurus

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

I say it "Fooh-kew-ie-saw-rus" and "fooh-kew-ie-raptor"

"Lie-oh-plor-o-don"

"Please-y-o-sawr-us"

"Core-y-tho-sawr-us"

[wheezy]

i pronounce corythosaurus as cor-ith-o-saur-us

[brad]

May 22, 2010 23:02:25 GMT sbell said:

What about Stegosaurus (Steg-oh-saw-rus) vs. Stegoceras (Steg-oh-Sair-Ahs)?

Of course, if you get all 'old school', then a 'C' in a Greek word should be pronounced like a 'K', and the confusion gets a little easier.

"Stegokeras"?

"Trikeratops"?!?

Centrosaurus at least cannot have the "c" pronounced identical to "k," or it becomes indistinguishable from Kentrosaurus.

[rugops]

There are a million different ways to pronounce Giganotosaurus's name

Jig-an-o-to-saur-us

Gig-an-o-to-saur-us

Ji-gant-o-saurus

[Horridus]

I've always said 'Giga' as in 'Gigabyte' when it came to Giganotosaurus.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

May 23, 2010 14:54:29 GMT rugops said:

Ji-gant-o-saurus

No. That's not even how it's spelled. Ji-gant-o-saurus was actually a sauropod. Very different. People only tend to say it that way because they skip over the extra letters.

[stoneage]

May 23, 2010 17:42:57 GMT Horridus said:

I've always said 'Giga' as in 'Gigabyte' when it came to Giganotosaurus.

When I first saw the word Giganotosaurus, I thought it was like Gigantic because of the theropods size. So Gigan-o-toe-saurus.

[rugops]

I say Giganotosaurus, Jig-an-o-to-saur-us

[Griffin]

I pronounce it with a J sound. "Jigganotoesaurus"

[Godzillasaurus]

Some one please help me with

Piatnitzkysaurus

Funny story I couldn't pronounce Parasaurolophus as a kid and I had the original Carnegie Para with the yellow head so I called him banana head. and i STILL think of that every time I see a para. Banana head. lol

[Horridus]

Surely Pee-at-nitz-key-saurus?

[Gorgonopsid]

I pronounce them by the first way listed.