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Subject:
AW: Shell Name Pronunciation
From:
Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:03:39 PDT
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Tri go no stoma should be right as stoma means stomach and it's
neutrum.
 
Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0443 / 512 / 57 32 14
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Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37
 
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> Would one of you Latin wizards please help me to pronounce "Trigonostoma"?
> Is it
> "Tri go NOS to ma"  or maybe  "Tri GON os to ma" or maybe ?????  Are there
> generally accepted guidelines for pronunciation?
>
> I often find that when I pronounce shell names in "Texan" people tend to
> look at me with a quizzical look.  Just wondering...
>
> Steven
> Texas
>

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