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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Is it just because the first name is more pleasing to the American ear, and is easier for a kid to say? Or is it a sociopolitical conspiracy? Sure sounds like a foreigner who spoke a Romance language named the Torosaurus, while Triceratops is distinctly Germanic. Have we been selectively teaching kids the name of the dinosaur that the white guy discovered?
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Had it been a truly German name it would have been Drei-ceratops. Tri is from the Latin. But yeah, Othniel Charles Marsh was from New York.