"Darn it! Looks like you didn't get drawn for the 2020 Fall season. It happens to us all. Better luck with the next Big Game Draw opportunity!" -AZGFD
I once asked a couple of French ladies how they would pronounce coues, and the said the did not recognize it as French, but would say "cowce" (rhymes with house). So was Elliott Coues really French?
And who knows how the guy pronounced his name 100 years after he died, or 100 years after anyone knew him. As you say even French people wouldn't pronounce it cows.
He wasn't an arizonian, he didn't discover them, I'm sure the local tribes hunted them and had a name for them.
We call them cooz so that's what they're called, Mexicans may call them something else... and that's what they are called... apaches may call them something else and that's what they are called.
Locals decided how to pronounce a word.
Kent
