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Lalage
by
Wordsmith
7/23/2020, 8:50 AM
Lalage
is one of my longstanding favorites; sadly, it rarely receives recognition, and when it does, it gets pilloried. Are there any
Lalage
admirers out there, or am I alone? For the record, I pronounce it like so: "LAH [the vowel sound in "bat"] - "luh" [the vowel sound in "but"] -- "jee" [as in "Gee whiz!]. Here's the pronunciation in IPA: ˈlælədʒiː
I'm perhaps most charmed by the name's ties to ancient poetry and its modern incarnation as the genus of passerine birds known as trillers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalage_(bird)
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Lalage
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Wordsmith
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7/23/2020, 8:50 AM
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NameNinja
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7/23/2020, 10:08 PM
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Somebody random
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7/23/2020, 1:31 PM
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Anneza
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7/23/2020, 1:15 PM
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7/23/2020, 10:13 AM
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Quicksilver
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7/23/2020, 9:51 AM
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MasonThursday
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7/23/2020, 9:02 AM