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Painting one wind turbine black leads to a significant decrease in bird mortality

By Birding-Aus, on August 31st, 2020%

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By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

Jerry Has Gone

By seashore, on August 29th, 2020%

Classical Latin pronounced both ‘c’ and ‘g’ as hard letters. ‘Ker or Ger’. Ecclesiastical Latin used by the Catholic Church for the last millennium as is modern Italian is spoken, changes both the ‘c’ and the ‘g’ to ‘ch’ and ‘jer‘ if they followed by an ‘i’ or a ‘e’. Take you pick how . . . → Read More: Jerry Has Gone

FW: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

Ah, the Pub fights with the Schoolroom. Just quickly, these are latinised names, even if from Greek. The pronunciation guide in the 1926 RAOU checklist (useful on stress but regards ‘g’ as so obvious it is not mentioned) cautioned: ‘The pronunciation here indicated is the English, not the ‘Continental’ or ‘Roman’ pronunciation of . . . → Read More: FW: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

Just looked at the ge-s in the dictionary and amongst the first are gear, geek and gecko. So ge doesn’t always mean a soft g. JL On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 08:09 Casimir Liber <casliber0134@gmail.com> wrote: In English the 'G' would be soft, hence 'J' as initial sound. I have never heard anyone . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

In English the 'G' would be soft, hence 'J' as initial sound. I have never heard anyone pronounce it with a hard 'G' Cas

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:47 PM Richard Nowotny <richard.nowotny@bigpond.com> wrote:

This pronunciation question seems to have been a contentious subject for Australian birders since the common name . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

Ha, thought you going to say it should be pronounced kisticola (which it should, because of the derivation from Greek kistos (=Cistus, Rock Rose), but the pronunciation sisticola is now well established. Anyway, as it the endings of words, we tend to pronounce these much less carefully than the beginnings of words because recognition . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

And how about cisticola – some pronounce it to rhyme with Coca Cola, bot I end if "kerla"

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On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 06:35, calyptorhynchus <calyptorhynchus@gmail.com> wrote: f you’re going to go on about the Greek derivation as your source does then it doesn’t make sense to recommend . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 29th, 2020%

f you’re going to go on about the Greek derivation as your source does then it doesn’t make sense to recommend jer-rig-onee as (ancient) Greek doesn’t have a ‘j’ sound (and the two gammas in the word should be pronounced alike). Therefore gur-rig-a-nee is logical. JL On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 23:47 Richard . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)

By Birding-Aus, on August 28th, 2020%

This pronunciation question seems to have been a contentious subject for Australian birders since the common name of the several species in the genus Gerygone was changed from fly-eater and/or warbler to the genus name, as recommended by the RAOU (Recommended English Names, RAOU 1978).

Some years ago, seeking to . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.)