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  1. dalat

    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    In German it's pronounced Yay gor or something like this (a bit difficult for me to come up with proper phonetic descriptions). It's another name making me wonder where it is coming from. Must definitely be of German origin, because Jäger means "hunter". But the actual German names are very...
  2. dalat

    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    Thanks! Others do concur? :) It looks like a French word, that's what is confusing me. But the French name is very different (Tétras), so I guess that name isn't really derived from French?
  3. dalat

    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    Nice thread! Reassuring that native English speakers have troubles too finding the right pronounciation... I heard Arakari and Jakana from bird guides in Latin America and Africa, so never really trusted my feeling that ç should be ss. Until I looked up German bird names and found that it is...
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