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Rakali - pronounciation

To: "maus" <>
Subject: Rakali - pronounciation
From: "michael norris" <>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:23:29 +1100
Hi All

Please kind someone.

Look this up in Australian Names for Australian Rodents.

I guess it indicates how to pronounce the proposed names.

It important because we try to avoid the r-a-t word in this urban are in 
relation to Rakali ie. Hydromys chrysogaster/Australian Water Rat.

I have (guess why?) been assuming "rakali" requires an upper-class English 
accent:

Raw - car - lee

But the other day a Scot produced a version as if it came from across the 
Tasman:

Rick - cally

Thanks

Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
Melbourne



 



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