[wisb] Re: How do you pronounce the word "Scaup"?

I, too, say "skawp" - most of the time. Here's a link to a Bird Forum 
discussion of this and other bird name pronunciations. Some of the 
comments are rather amusing.
  http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=124255

Cathy Mauer
Medford

On 2/8/2012 7:17 PM, Dar Tiede wrote:
> I would say "skawp" rather than "scowp" or "scop".  "Scop" sounds like a
> scaup that is called out by a birder from Boston.
> Dar Tiede
> Appleton
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>> In talking with a few other birders this week along Milwaukee's lakefront
>> I've started to think that maybe I am mispronouncing the word "Scaup". I
>> pronounce the "cau" like the word "cow", so it sounds like "Scowp". The
>> other birders pronounced the "caup" like "cop", so it sounds like "Scop".
>>
>> Maybe it's just my latent southern accent compared to a Great Lakes
>> accent. :-)  Just curious...
>>
>> Bernie Sloan
>> Milwaukee
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