[wisb] Re: How do you pronounce the word "Scaup"?
- From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: crepuscular@xxxxxxxxxx, cmauer@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:46:50 -0800 (PST)
OK...what I'm hearing locally is most definitely "skawp", and not "scop", as a
couple of people have pointed out to me.
As I hinted at earlier, my pronunciation of "Scaup" is probably a byproduct of
my lazy southern tongue. It almost sounds like "scout" when I say it. After
all, when I say "powerful" it comes out as "parfull". :-)
Bernie Sloan
Milwaukee
--- On Wed, 2/8/12, Cathy <cmauer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Cathy <cmauer@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [wisb] Re: How do you pronounce the word "Scaup"?
To: crepuscular@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx, "wisbirdn" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 9:59 PM
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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> From: "B.G. Sloan"<bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:49 PM
> To: "wisbirdn"<wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] How do you pronounce the word "Scaup"?
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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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