Then I learned that it is helpful for training to have a clearer and more concise name. I'm not generally fond of voiced stops, so I picked the easiest two voiceless stops, t and k, and combined them with my favorite vowels, and made sure the name was one I really like for her. I had a comic character, a wild child, with a similar name once so I thought it fit her. It made all the difference. She knew when we were calling to her and training at last moved forward from "step up."
My fiance named his parakeet after Momo, not taking into account the fact that birds don't have lips so both "m" and "o" are kind of difficult, and the similarity in the letters mean that it can sound like just one big blur.
Credit to FanPop.
How important is the vocal quality of parrot names? What are the most important qualities? Are stops the absolute best? What about fricatives? Are glides all that bad for birds? What about number of syllables, repetition, length, and rhyming with other words?
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P.S. I feel bad for my boss's guiding eyes dog, who is required to differentiate between "bowl" and "ball." In our accent, they are both basically, "b(uh)l".
can say the W and L and even Ch.