100 years ago . May I follow Prof. Grenville Cole ... in supporting Sir Clifford Allbutt? The prefix “dino-,” as thus spelled, is ambiguous. We who know that “dinosaur” means “terrible lizard” may smile at the undergraduate and his “dinnosaur.” But how would you pronounce “Dinocystis”? Wrongly, no doubt, as I did myself until I learned that the first begetter of the name derived it from δ?νειν, to swirl, because the rays are spirally coiled. The same for Dinocharis and Di...