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Pronunciations of dinosaur/prehistoric animal names

Started by Gondwanalandia, April 30, 2015, 07:01:21 AM

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Protopatch

I probably missed a chapter ^^, but the NHM provides a fairly exhaustive dinosaurs directory, including the official (or the most common ?) pronunciation for each of them :

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/discover/dino-directory.html

A few ancient marine reptiles pronunciations are available here :

https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2020/12/08/the-reign-of-the-reptiles-meet-the-monsters/

Does anyone have idea of where we can find that kind of list regarding the prehistoric flying reptiles ?

Lastly and for the fun of it, I'm also sharing below a list of 10 prehistoric animals which are apparently hard to pronounce :

https://www.thoughtco.com/hardest-pronounce-and-spell-prehistoric-animals-1092441



crazy8wizard

That top 10 list is an impressive one! I was honestly expecting Opisthocoelicaudia and Qianzhousaurus to be on there. I'm also quite glad that there are a good amount of greek rooted names in there too and not just loaded with exclusively foreign rooted names like so many other lists do.

andrewsaurus rex

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Several i haven't heard of on that list but i don't agree those are the top 10 hardest.  I would at the least remove Propliopithecus (walk in the park to pronounce that) and replace it with Ugrunaaluk with bonus points for Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis.

Was a time Quetzalcoatlus would have been on a list like that but it's become somewhat familiar now and thus more know how to pronounce it.

And based on the discussion above, maybe Plesiosaur and Diplodocus should be on the list. ;D

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