Hey, I've now been asked several times how to pronounce the word "Hephaestus". Although I am fairly confident that each of the people who asked owns a dictionary, here's some linkage to Merriam-Webster. The page includes a .wav file of someone saying it (click on the little red speaker icon). http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hephaestus&x=0&y=0 ;-) B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/