Roger Korn wrote: > > No parley vooze frog-sez? That'd be Gee-a-mo', with the "gee" like in > "geese". > > Roger, in warm and wet NW Oregon Well, that may be the way the French pronounce it, but according to the 1999 World Book encyclopedia, the common pronunciation in English (or at least American English) is a bit different: "Guillemot, pronounced GIHL uh maht, is a sea bird in the auk family. The black guillemot, or sea pigeon, lives on both coasts of the North Atlantic. It is about 13 inches (33 centimeters) long, and it has a slender, pointed bill and bright red legs and feet. Its feathers are black with white wing patches in summer. It is mostly white in winter. The pigeon guillemot, or sea pigeon, lives on the Pacific coast of North America. Scientific Classification. Guillemots belong to the auk family, Alcidae. The black guillemot is Cepphus grylle, and the pigeon guillemot is C. columba. Contributor: George L. Hunt, Jr., Ph.D., Prof., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California, Irvine." (quoted from the 1999 World Book CD ROM) Note that Nick could avoid this difficulty with the pronunciation of his company name if he simply were to rename his company "Sea Pigeon". This would still allow him to use his very cool graphical image of a Guillemot (er, I mean Sea Pigeon). Or, if he wants to be even more obscure, he could use the name Cepphus. Just trying to be helpful... Dan Hagen Bellingham, Washington - *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 07:38:55 PST
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