Hi Andrew
Are you preparing for the Hurricane there in
Allie-Bam-Uh  ?

For someone’s definitive answer see...

Cate, Jean M. & Selma Raskin -1986
It's Easy to Say Crepidula (kreh PID'yu luh): A Phonetic Guide to Pronunciation
of the Scientific Names of Sea Shells & a Glossary of Terms Frequently used in
Malacology, Pretty Penney Press, 156 pp, soft cover, quarto.

I personally perfer the goofy sounding Crepi-DU-la !

Now if someone would just answer your shell question!!!

Leslie

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David Kirsh asks,
> And--is it Cre-PID-ula or Crepi-DU-la?

Yes, but please don't imagine that Cicero would have recognized your
pronunciation in either case. He probably pronounced his name kee-kay-ro, not
SISS-uh-ro, which suggests the amount of linguistic change that has occurred
even in a not-so-dead language like Latin, particularly as interpreted after
several centuries of use by speakers of a rapidly changing language like
English. The best plan is just to pronounce the word the same way each time, so
your listeners will have a chance to understand your pronunciation.

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of AL-a-BAM-a

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Does anyone know whether it's Crepidula convexa
that sometimes has faint nodulose longitudinal ribs?

And--is it Cre-PID-ula or Crepi-DU-la?

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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