On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kevin Purcell <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>wrote:

> Perhaps bird guide should include pronunciation guides too for those wacky
> English (or Spanish) names.
>
>
I have been confused by pronunciation on numerous occasions, and I am
guessing that I am not the only one. Much of my original birding experience
came from my own investigations - walking around the river next to my
undergraduate college with a bird guide. I usually never had advanced
birders there to pronounce names properly for me. Whenever I am birding
with a more advanced birder, I usually still ask how he or she pronounces
particular names - and I often get contradictory advice from different
people. I am tempted to learn IPA, for no other reason than to make notes
about bird names for myself...

Michael Schrimpf
Seattle


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