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

  • From: Gayle Davis <humnbrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:44 -0600

I say "cop" -

funny you brought up the use of our English language - I just shot an 
email around to friends regarding the use of plural Snowy Owls as Snowys 
or Snowies as I've seen it both ways, and in my mind I thought it should 
be Snowys since it's a proper name - one friend sent this response:  
"According to the Gregg Reference Manual, the plurals of proper name are 
formed by adding an s (or es) so it would be Snowys" - it was just one 
of those fun emails to send around  :)

I'll be curious to see how Scaup comes out - next survey I'd like to see 
is Pileated - both are accepted in the dictionaries, often with the "i" 
as in pie preferred over the "i" as in pill - I've always liked 
Pie-leated, but on occasion I use Pill-eated -   :)

Gayle Davis
Owen, Taylor Cty

On 2/8/2012 6:49 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
> 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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