RE: paleonet Welcome to The Palaeo-oological Discussion Group

["David Kopaska-Merkel" <davidkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not believe that in English-language usage we would ever go with three
o's in a row.  I think the only possibly correct versions are Paleoology,
Palaeoology and the same two with umlauts on the second o; four choices in
all.

David  


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-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf
Of Xavier Panades I Blas
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:31 AM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet Welcome to The Palaeo-oological Discussion Group

Thank you very much Gary...

I think we should include the three different variables: Palaeoology,
Paleooology, and Paleooölogy



Respectfully,

Xavier Panades I Blas
55, Marksbury Road
Bedminster
Bristol BS3 5JY
England (EC)

http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~xp1pls/
















From: "Dr. Tim Palmer" <tjp@aber.ac.uk>
Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet Welcome to The Palaeo-oological Discussion Group
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:12 +0100

I think that a real purist might also insist on a diaeresis on the third 
one, though these days few people are pure enough to know what one of those 
is!

Tim

>palaeooobiology
>
>I like this word.    You should nominate it for the Oxford English 
>Dictionary.   But you spelled it with only 2 "o" earlier in the email.   
>Which is correct.   I hope it's the 3 "o" version, although a purist would 
>insist on a hyphen, I'd guess, between no. 1 and no. 2.
>