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.)
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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.) 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.) And how about cisticola – some pronounce it to rhyme with Coca Cola, bot I end if "kerla" Virus-free. www.avast.com 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.) 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.) 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.) G’day folks I was staying at a cottage on a land for wildlife property close to Stanthorpe (on the Granite Belt) just north of the NSW border on the weekend. At around 9 pm on one evening I heard a rather different call which had a good match in the Masked Owl recordings on the . . . → Read More: Masked Owl Calls Dear Fellow Birders, Has anyone seen this book yet? www.lynxeds.com/product/all-the-birds-of-the-world/ It contains beautiful illustrations of every bird in the world including known extinct ones. I am not affiliated with this publisher or get anything from mentioning it, I just think this book looks so amazingly cool. It is only 65 euros… I already preordered my . . . → Read More: book “All the birds of the world” More news from Inner South Canberra. Yesterday Sandra Henderson reported Silver Gulls nesting in the open forecourt space in front of the national parliament. This was the scene early this morning (about 0730) with about a hundred of them in the plantings of prostrate grevillea, egg-sitting, site-selecting, squabbling and copulating. In recent years . . . → Read More: Very Australian Gulls 3 tail pix ATTACHED: – dorsal – notch (ventral), & showing blue wash – spread = 12 rectrices ———- Forwarded message ———From: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Subject: Fwd: which hawk ?To: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Thanks, guys. As you see, the various measurements fall between the 2 species, & I remain uncertain. The bird is in . . . → Read More: Fwd: which hawk ? |
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