compeateropeator
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Post by compeateropeator on Feb 16, 2023 2:44:17 GMT
New Englander here…I picked with the e. But when I think about it I sometimes go without the e especially if talking about more than 1 (i.e there were bunch of coyots howling). I am all over the place with this word. 😄
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Post by h2ohdog on Feb 16, 2023 2:51:56 GMT
Definitely with a long "e" at the end. Although going by the rules of English grammar it should be "ky-ot" with a long "o". This reminds me of a funny thing we always observed when I was in the Peace Corps in a French-speaking country. Since "corps" is a French word we Americans always pronounced it that way (and in fact his is how "Peace Corps" is pronounced) -- "Cor" no "p" and no "s". But the French people who I met there would pronounce all the letters so it sounded like "corpse" because they had been taught that in English we usually pronounce those final letters. lol I was in AmeriCorps and a leader my third term pronounced it AmeriCorpse. I cringed but did not correct her. btw, I pronounce it ky-oat and have no idea why. |
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Post by chaosisapony on Feb 16, 2023 3:00:17 GMT
I go with the long eeee at the end but most people I know locally say it with the "kai-ot" pronounciation.
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Post by sillyrabbit on Feb 16, 2023 3:11:44 GMT
I pronounce it with the long e but it's pretty common to here it without the e in my rural area.
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Post by grammadee on Feb 16, 2023 4:21:35 GMT
In Alberta here. We don't say that last e. And the "o" kinda has an "oo" sound, so kai-yoot, with emphasis on the first syllable.
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Post by artbabe on Feb 16, 2023 12:35:13 GMT
I don't know if it is regional. I say it with the e on the end, my father doesn't say the e. Both of us have lived our whole lives in Ohio. Maybe it is generational? Dad is 83.
That reminds me of the word "either". I say it with the and i sound. My mom pronounced the first syllable as e. I've done it that way since I was little and it used to bug my mom. She thought I was saying it wrong.
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Post by seaexplore on Feb 16, 2023 14:18:13 GMT
Kai-oh-tea
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 16, 2023 15:16:45 GMT
I’m going with the Wile E. Coyoteeee pronunciation. But I’m a city slicker at heart who only recently moved to an area where some can actually be heard occasionally at night, so there’s that.
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Post by caangel on Feb 16, 2023 15:36:55 GMT
We have lots of them in our neighborhood (So Cal). Definitely with the long e at the end.
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Post by mimima on Feb 16, 2023 16:00:00 GMT
I say both. I grew up saying kai-ote, but prefer kai-ooo-tee
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 16, 2023 16:20:49 GMT
We don't have them in the UK, so my only experience of the word is from the Roadrunner cartoon, and the Coyote Ugly film. Both with the e pronounced at the end.
But I believe it's a Spanish word and the Spanish pronounce it coy-oh-té. So I wonder where the ky-oh-tee pronunciation comes from?
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Post by katlady on Feb 16, 2023 17:26:49 GMT
But I believe it's a Spanish word and the Spanish pronounce it coy-oh-té. So I wonder where the ky-oh-tee pronunciation comes from? I guess the "tee" on the end is the Americanized version.  I generally say kah-yoh-tee. I break up the syllable so the "y" is attached to the second "o". |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 16, 2023 18:55:29 GMT
But I believe it's a Spanish word and the Spanish pronounce it coy-oh-té. So I wonder where the ky-oh-tee pronunciation comes from? I guess the "tee" on the end is the Americanized version. I generally say kah-yoh-tee. I break up the syllable so the "y" is attached to the second "o". That's the only way I've heard it said. I was wondering when/how coy turned into ky? |
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Post by StephDRebel on Feb 16, 2023 19:00:14 GMT
No long e in our household but we also sometimes call them coy-dogs
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Post by compeateropeator on Feb 16, 2023 19:18:23 GMT
No long e in our household but we also sometimes call them coy-dogs Coydogs is a term that also used in our area. |
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Post by deekaye on Feb 16, 2023 20:19:33 GMT
No E. When we hear them in the hills above us, we say the Ki-Oats are howling tonight!
Interestingly though, I guess I do say Wile E, CoyotEEEEE. Hmmmm..... those Saturday morning cartoons umpteen years ago...
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