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After doing some googling, I found a number of different pronunciations: Shy-rus Sheer-us (this is the one I've always heard) Share-us This site has a number of possibilities. There are 4 different English possibilities depending on which audio button you push. SHIRAS Is there one single correct one? I ran across this pic of a staged moose shoot in Norway. Pretty funny. That's got to be saddest 'moose' I've ever seen.
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Damn, that looks like Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
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Saw a nice one Sunday morning while climbing one of the 14er peaks preparing for elk season. Solid black, trophy shovels.
A moonbeam hiker that I chatted with on the trail told me that she had 'sensed the presence' of a moose. I could tell that she didn't mean 'sensed' it with one of her 5 senses like a normal person. "'Happy Harvest Moon' to you too."
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It's a long "I" in Alaska.
The Black Phase Brown bears of the ABC islands are all referred to as Shirus Brown bears. At least when I was guiding there. I had a client shoot one on Kuiu island which has no brown bears. Thought it was the biggest black bear in history when I saw it. How did it get here? I dunno, guess it crossed at low tide between islands?
I radioed the state patrol shortly after realizing the mistake. Black color Brown bear on an island without brown bears! Jet black as coal but with a dull colored hide, not the typical shiny black coat of a black bear. However when they are in the water and all wet, you cannot see them very clearly anyway. Well except it was a giant!
F&G took the bear hide I skinned for them( trying to be as helpful and polite as possible). The F&G guy on the plane said, I would have shot that one in a heart beat on this island too! No trouble, glad we called it on and did not try to do something stupid! We carried on with the hunt for a black bear. After they left. It was about an inch shy of 9 foot. Best I could measure on the beach with a 6' fabric tape. Might have been a bit bigger...... or smaller?
It's got a better Twang to it then saying it's a black brown bear. I've also only heard this in Wyoming when referring to the moose there. Shirus Moose. They are also quite dark, or near black in color.
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Shy-rus is the only pronunciation I have heard. As a student of Etymology it made me look for it and I find nothing else...
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This Shiras was up in the driveway at the ranch (Colorado) a few weeks ago when I had to make a run up there.
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Uh, bleep. Yeah,that's what I meant to say.
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Shy-rus is the only pronunciation I have heard. Me too.
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Sheer-us is the way I've always thought it was pronounced!
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Shy-rus is the only pronunciation I have heard. Me too. Me 3
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That's the link I had in my OP. They have 4 different pronunciations so I guess it's 'take your pick'.
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Sorry. Didn't click the link, so missed it.
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I'm in the Sheer-us camp.
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Since Idaho only has 1 subspecies, the usual pronunciation is 'moose'.
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That's the link I had in my OP. They have 4 different pronunciations so I guess it's 'take your pick'. That link is pronouncing it as though there is an apostrophe before the s, as in Shira (a noun) owns a moose. An old book (1892) I have here lists it as a long i in the pronunciation. It is the earliest version I have seen and the only one other than the website.
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Shy-rus is the only way. Anything else is uncivilized.
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Shy-rus is the only way. Anything else is uncivilized. I hate civilization. Sheee'roosh it is.
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George Shiras did much of his initial nightime flash photography work here in the Marquette area of Upper MI. His name is pronounced Shy-rus.
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