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IN 1844 Sir John Herschel wrote to Owen regretting his spelling of the name of the fossil bird Dinornis, and urged that a Frenchman would pronounce the word Denornis, which he would not do had it been spelt Deinornis. To this Owen answered by directing attention to our pronunciation of the word receive.
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BELL, F. Scientific Names of Greek Derivation. Nature 112, 165 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112165b0
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