Gook (???) (1912)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> observes:
   >>>>>
Re "dinosourus."  Walter Cronkite always says "dinosour."   This is evidence
for the pronunciations antiquity.  (Though come to think of it, so is
Cronkite.)
 <<<<<

For what it's worth, "sour" is a much better Latin pronunciation of that
syllable than "sore"... although I doubt that they would have said "deeno-".

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]