Julie with a B

Friday, February 18, 2005
 
Back at the University... some higher learning
Also from P.H. who is attending said University. I think this somehow ties into the "language" post below:

"So, today in Paleontology class we were looking at a new set of fossils that we have to be able to identify on sight, remember the phylum, class, order (latin of course) and lastly, tell how old it is. It’s kind of a pain in the behind as you might imagine. As we were going through our new list for this week, we came to a couple sub-phylums with these names, Ctenophora and, Cnidaria. Our professor explained that these are pronounced the same way that they look, but the “C” is silent. The student sitting next to me said something like “Silent “C”, only in Latin.” Grumble grumble. To this our professor said “Actually, silent “C’s” are common in english also.” “For instance look at this name for a musical genre.” Then he wrote this on the board “CRAP”.

- posted by JulieB @ 5:01 PM
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