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→Cenozoic/cainozoic: Even my speculation is accurate!
:I was being a bit cheeky with reverting that change. :-) But is "Cenozoic" really the "modern" name, or just an alternative that some use? Is it (I'm just speculating here) actually a term that Americans use whilst others use the "older" term. Frankly, I don't know enough about the difference, but quick Googling on it the other day suggested to me that Cenozoic was merely an alternative rather than "the modern name", and I gathered that Cainozoic was truer to the roots of the word. Please enlighten me as to the real situation (with specifics if possible, not just opinion). [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:50, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
:I was being a bit cheeky with reverting that change. :-) But is "Cenozoic" really the "modern" name, or just an alternative that some use? Is it (I'm just speculating here) actually a term that Americans use whilst others use the "older" term. Frankly, I don't know enough about the difference, but quick Googling on it the other day suggested to me that Cenozoic was merely an alternative rather than "the modern name", and I gathered that Cainozoic was truer to the roots of the word. Please enlighten me as to the real situation (with specifics if possible, not just opinion). [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:50, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
::Out of curiosity I looked at a couple fo the places I go when "trying to find something out quickly". First, I regret not having a geology textbook handy. I googles cainozoic, on the first page was a link where someone was asking what cainozoic meant, on some astronomy board. They were told it meant "Cenozoic". Then I went to the arch-enemy, the liberal's Christ-killing handbook, WP. Cainozoic simply redirects to Cenozoic. I have a moderate background in being taught science-y stuff (both in the old country and here), and never say the cain spelling until the quote on this page. But I have seen the cen spelling endlessly. It is what the era is called. I wonder if there is a subtle YEC thing going on, since it is the "age of the mammals" (among other things)? You know, "Cain"? Anyway, thanks for replying and explaining. Now can we fix the table? [[User:Human|Human]] 23:08, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
::Out of curiosity I looked at a couple fo the places I go when "trying to find something out quickly". First, I regret not having a geology textbook handy. I googles cainozoic, on the first page was a link where someone was asking what cainozoic meant, on some astronomy board. They were told it meant "Cenozoic". Then I went to the arch-enemy, the liberal's Christ-killing handbook, WP. Cainozoic simply redirects to Cenozoic. I have a moderate background in being taught science-y stuff (both in the old country and here), and never say the cain spelling until the quote on this page. But I have seen the cen spelling endlessly. It is what the era is called. I wonder if there is a subtle YEC thing going on, since it is the "age of the mammals" (among other things)? You know, "Cain"? Anyway, thanks for replying and explaining. Now can we fix the table? [[User:Human|Human]] 23:08, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
:::You consider that's a sufficient rebuttal??? I'll take that bit about Cain as a joke, because I think that's the way you meant it.
:::Okay, I've looked a bit further, and it seems that I was correct.
:::* [http://www.timerock.com/timerock/library/fossils/australia_cenozoic.htm this site] mentions that Cainozoic is "called Cenozoic in the USA". Score one for me—even my speculation is accurate!
:::* [http://www.euronet.nl/users/backhuys/cares.htm this site], which is for the "Cainozoic Research" journal (non-American, by the way), says that for the name of the journal (started in 2001), "the spelling Cainozoic, as opposed to Cenozoic and Caenozoic, was chosen as it more accurately reflects the original Greek root kainos - recent".
:::* Many other Google hits for "cainozoic cenozoic" (without the quote marks) show results where one term is given as an ''alternative'' or ''alternative spelling'' for the other, not one being the modern version of the other.
::: It seems that I was correct; not just about the American bit, but that they are simply alternatives, and it is not true to claim that Cenozoic is the "modern" term.
::: Given that, I see no reason to change it.
:::[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:53, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
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