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Contents 1 IPA for Lushootseed Words 2 We need to Clean up Puget Sound 3 Page cleanup? 4 Puget Sound in music and movies section 5 Quick Note, removed category Washington Regions 6 Geographic complications

[edit] IPA for Lushootseed Words

For the sake of accuracy in pronunciation, it would look better to provide the IPA for the original Lushootseed for 'Puget Sound', or even for the Chinook Jargon equivalent if it differs from the English. "Whulge" looks a bit unprofessional...

[edit] We need to Clean up Puget Sound

Cleaning up Puget Sound is one of the biggest political topics in Western Washington. How can we provide information about this effort and the debate in a balanced manner?

[edit] Page cleanup?

Someone appears to have defaced the page. Please clean it up, or revert it?

[edit] Puget Sound in music and movies section

I propose deletion of this section. Although it is not labeled as trivia, that's essentially what it is. Furthermore, none of the information is cited. Thoughts? --mo ^talk 03:46, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

To expand my note above, the Wikipedia policy is to "avoid" trivia sections, which leaves the topic wide open for interpretation. I find the Handling trivia essay to be a helpful guide. mo ^talk 04:55, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

100% agree. At the very least, the songs that just mention Puget Sound have no purpose in remaining there. Dnowacki (talk) 00:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, I went ahead and got rid of this section as well as the navy bases section. They were already fully reproduced on Puget Sound region and didn't really have much reason to be in this article. Dnowacki (talk) 00:59, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Note, removed category Washington Regions

there is now a separate article for the Puget Sound region, meaning this article should deal specifically with the body of water known as puget sound --Gold Man60 Talk 00:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Geographic complications

I've just been doing a series of landform articles and have come across the terms Puget Trough (currently redirected to Puget Sound region, but....) and Puget Sound Lowland. The Puget Sound region article is about the geo-cultural entity but not directly about the landform. The Trough includes Puget Sound itself as well as the Puget Sound Lowland; both are part of the Georgia Depression, along with Fraser Lowland, Georgia Lowland and Nanaimo Lowland; in the US the Depression maybe is named the Georgia-Puget Depression or Puget-Georgia Depression, I'm not sure. Note that these are phsyiographic regions, not physiogeologic ones.....I note that the Puget Sound article aptly describes only the waterway's geology (for the most part) whic there is no geology on Puget Sound region (which IMO shoudl be capital-R), though what the geologic name for this area is I don't know yet; just noting these as parallel potential-articles....Skookum1 (talk) 16:30, 20 October 2009 (UTC)