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Maldive Islands: in the year 1721 150 million C. moneta exported.
Philippines and Zanzibar: 1800 950 million C. moneta, 1858 1,000 million C. annulus, 1857 2,000 million C. annulus, 1868
1,300 million C. annulus, 1875 400 million C. annulus.
During the 19th century the export of annulus and moneta to West Africa according to available records totaled 75,000 million
(75 billion) specimens, which equaled in weight 115,000 tons. Adopting 4/5" as the average length for these species, all
cowries joined tail to front, would encircle the earth 37 times around the equator or reach 4 times the distance from the
earth to the moon. [The math is correct. Bob Dayle.] No Philippine or Zanzibar collector ever complained about the scarcity
of the two species in those regions. If we call 37 M. insularum "mass slaughter," what do we call this?
This sounds simple. Actually it is chaotic, because there is no one correct English pronunciation. There is no one and only
one right way of speaking English. For example, let us take an Englishman, a Bostonian, a resident of Alabama, and a native
of Indiana. These four people would probably pronounce the same word in four different ways -- each speaking correctly for
his locality. Add to this the fact that people who speak languages other than English pronounce scientific names with the
sounds and values of their native tongues. According to Kenyon, 6 "a pronunciation is correct when it is in actual use by a
sufficient number of cultivated speakers." This is obviously elastic. The conclusion one must reach is that there is no
single standard of correct pronunciation.
There are, however, rules for the English pronunciation of Latin which are accepted as guides by the philologists who compile
our dictionaries. We have attempted to digest and simplify these complicated, verbose rules so that amateur conchologists may
have some assurance that they are approximating the pronunciation of scientific names of shells as practiced by professional
malacologists. obviously incomplete, this guide should be supplemented by consulting an unabridged dictionary in case of
question. Frequently the exact word may be found or, if not, ,one can make a reasoned judgment from an analogous English
word.
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