And what about the proper pronounciation of Cypaea?? its should be approx.
Kupraea (the "u" sounding like the German "u") and the aea all apart.
 
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> Van: mark <[log in to unmask]>
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> Onderwerp: What do we do?
> Datum: vrijdag 1 mei 1998 13:11
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> Bobby, you wrote:
> Yeah right....what do you do with all those shells that have no common
> names?  Or like I said the Floridians that call coquinas....periwinkles?
>
> In the case of periwinkles being called coquinas well even us "common"
> people sometimes miss the mark so to speak . Most collectors I know call
a
> coquina a coquina, and a periwinkle a periwinkle . But many Latin names
are
> tossed about too, what ever happened to "polinces"? I read probably two
> dozen messages not long ago about how polinces is now being called
something
> else entirely different . What's up with that ? Or how about the
legendary
> "lion's paw" , anyone found a proper  Latin name for that one yet?????
{oh
> that must have stung a bit}
> We also have another funny little thing about "Latin", it's a dead
language
> and thusly i hear several butchered Latin names as there are no
indigenous
> Latins speaking this anymore. My favorite revised Latin name is
"busycon".
> Many of you in the shelling community pronounce this boozycon?
> ITS BUSY not boozy. If your using english as your native tongue then use
> vowels properly. Well what do you think there Sir Art, have we made the
> case? mark