Subject: [Tweeters] Rude comment from sort of a curmudgeon
Date: Nov 5 12:57:34 2017
From: Rick Tyler - rhtyler at gmail.com
How do you stand on "Buffy" for "Bufflehead?"
Rick Tyler
On Nov 5, 2017 12:54 PM, "Bud Anderson" <falconresearch at gmail.com> wrote:
A Roughie is actually a fish.
A Rough-legged Hawk is a raptor.
Please help save us from other such "cute" atrocities like "Kessy",
"P-bird", and, of course, "Baldy".
And, no, I don't know why "Sharpie" is OK. It just is.
And "Coopie" and "Gossy" just aren't.
OK, I feel better now.
Bud
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