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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 3, 2023 14:33:00 GMT -5
Coyote... "yott" or "yodee"? In Idaho...where we have a lot of coyotes it is pronounced yote. In fact the nickname for the sports teams for the College of Idaho are The Yotes. The e is silent, but makes the o say its name.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 3, 2023 15:10:31 GMT -5
In the Yankee territory we always said "yodee" as in Wile E Coyote. Then I married a southerner and finally moved to the south and it "yott" down here. Which drives me as crazy as Hair-ess-ment for harassment. Up, up north (I was born in Minnesota) it's pop. Further south where I was raised it's soda. Down here in the south you hear just about everything. But it's mostly pop or coke. As in a coke is a generic term to use for any soft drink and most likely you'll end up with a Dr.Pepper because apparently southerns love that stuff. My father-in-law calls it soda pop. Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 3, 2023 15:24:44 GMT -5
I think you mean “tonic.”
Perhaps, but I sure didn't mean "colonic". Methinks thou dost protest too much...
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Post by Confessor on Oct 3, 2023 16:14:36 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2023 16:52:09 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato? Yes.
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Post by Calidore on Oct 3, 2023 16:58:55 GMT -5
Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos.
But what about second breakfast?
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 3, 2023 17:19:03 GMT -5
Coyote... "yott" or "yodee"? In Idaho...where we have a lot of coyotes it is pronounced yote. In fact the nickname for the sports teams for the College of Idaho are The Yotes. The e is silent, but makes the o say its name.
Somehow, I think you've argued a similar case before...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 3, 2023 17:30:23 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato? It's tomatl, like it's coyotl. Nahuatl. Suchl a lovelyl languagl.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 3, 2023 18:28:17 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato? Just remember that tomato rhymes with potato.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 3, 2023 19:07:51 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato? Just remember that tomato rhymes with potato.
And they're spelled the same (with a silent "e" on the end) if you're a politician with last name is Quayle.
Silly me, why am I explaining this to you? You were probably already retired back when that little controversy was a thing. By your picture, you were born in 1879, right?
I'll shut up and go have a tonic...
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 3, 2023 19:15:07 GMT -5
In the Yankee territory we always said "yodee" as in Wile E Coyote. Then I married a southerner and finally moved to the south and it "yott" down here. Which drives me as crazy as Hair-ess-ment for harassment. Up, up north (I was born in Minnesota) it's pop. Further south where I was raised it's soda. Down here in the south you hear just about everything. But it's mostly pop or coke. As in a coke is a generic term to use for any soft drink and most likely you'll end up with a Dr.Pepper because apparently southerns love that stuff. My father-in-law calls it soda pop. Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos.
Not sure how far south you are, but in my neck of the woods (TN-AL-MS) it's "dinner" for lunch, as in "Sunday Dinner", which is the meal you invite the preacher to right after church, and "Supper" for the evening meal. "Lunch" is still heard more frequently in cities, while "dinner" still rules in the rural and small towns for the mid-day meal. "Supper" and "Dinner" are sometimes interchanged for the evening meal, but again it depends on how urban or rural the locale might be.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Oct 3, 2023 20:05:18 GMT -5
It's the same in the rural Canadian prairies, where my family roots are-lunch is dinner and dinner is supper
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Post by berkley on Oct 3, 2023 20:10:30 GMT -5
Same thing in Nfld, with dinner the noon-day and supper the evening meal. And I still call them that myself, usually.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 3, 2023 20:11:49 GMT -5
It's pronounced "Sooooooper Geeniusssssss."
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Post by berkley on Oct 3, 2023 23:22:15 GMT -5
But is it tomato or tomato? Yes. Underrated album!
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