RANT......Hey Westerners what the hell is a ky-ute?????

tokguy said:
Too much coffee already. We know that being from Ontario means that you believe that the rest of Canada revolves around you, but .....shhhht.
Never mind the vocabulary corrections too. If a Newf can have their own distinct accent and terms , so can us flatlanders.
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I have been callin them bastards KI-yutes for as long as I can remember, so does everyone else I know.
 
I've never been that picky....I can figure out what someone is taking about regardless of weather not they call em a yote, yotee, song dog ect ect... on a side note I was recently in Missouri and had a good chuckle regarding them putting stuff in the warsh....not sure when the R was put in wash but who am I to judge. Made me laugh.
 
PatchRat said:
Steve Rinella describes the difference in terms used as (paraphrasing here) city people call them "ki-yote-ees". People who have shot them call them "ki-yoats". I cringe every time I hear it pronouned ki-yote-ee.
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Same here. It's Ki-yoat. The "e" on the end is silent. Ki-yoat-ee is for Western movies and cartoon characters.
 
It's not just a Western thing; I know lots of Toronto hunters who pronounce it Ki-yoat.

Of course, most of them spell it "Quaeheaute"...:)
 
j_06 said:
Why do some easterners call grouse partridge?
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This isn't a matter of pronunciation, or a matter off calling something by a different name. It is a matter of being dead wrong.

It's like calling a beaver an otter. Just plain wrong.

Why, you ask? Because there already are things called "partridge" and they aren't grouse.

Would you call a wolf a fox?
 
ironsighter said:
This isn't a matter of pronunciation, or a matter off calling something by a different name. It is a matter of being dead wrong.

It's like calling a beaver an otter. Just plain wrong.

Why, you ask? Because there already are things called "partridge" and they aren't grouse.

Would you call a wolf a fox?
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It's like using 30-06 to designate a caliber.
 
And somewhat off this topic, but vaguely related, Chicken, Alaska (population 7, founded late 1800's, incorporated 1902), was named Chicken because there was some dissention among the resident prospectors/miners of the time as to how to spell ptarmigan, which was the first name proposed for the town as there were an abundance of those birds in the area.
Apparently there was no one from 'Trana' there to tell them how to do it.
 
DaveF said:
And somewhat off this topic, but vaguely related, Chicken, Alaska (population 7, founded late 1800's, incorporated 1902), was named Chicken because there was some dissention among the resident prospectors/miners of the time as to how to spell ptarmigan, which was the first name proposed for the town as there were an abundance of those birds in the area.
Apparently there was no one from 'Trana' there to tell them how to do it.
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LOL.

Ever heard the story of how Kinmount, ON got it's name?

They couldn't fit "CousinF#ckers" on the sign.
 
Actually SJ...........30-06 does in fact designate a caliber. The correct full designation of the 30-06 is; 30 caliber cartridge last variant of 1906, this is derived from the 30 caliber cartridge designed and submitted for approval in 1903 (30-03). So as is evident, the first 2 digits do most definitely designate the caliber..........the last 2 being the year of acceptance by the US military machine. Neither tells us one thing about the brass case behind the bullet unlike European cases (7X57) which if nothing else tells us the caliber and length of the brass case behind it........

By the way, the correct pronunciation of the word coyote as applied to the scuffy fur bearing dog like animal of North and South Americas..........is KI-YOAT, with a dialectal variation being KI-YOOT. At no time has the pronunciation of KI-YOAT-EE been correct. It is not now nor ever has been a 3 syllable word as noted by the person from the Oxford dictionary. Not to mention the pronunciation of KI-YOAT-EE just sounds so very very wrong, like something you'd hear in a kid's cartoon.............
 
DaveF said:
And somewhat off this topic, but vaguely related, Chicken, Alaska (population 7, founded late 1800's, incorporated 1902), was named Chicken because there was some dissention among the resident prospectors/miners of the time as to how to spell ptarmigan, which was the first name proposed for the town as there were an abundance of those birds in the area.
Apparently there was no one from 'Trana' there to tell them how to do it.
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And if you've ever been there you could see how this story is likely true.........and I ain't talking about the numbers of ptarmigan either...........They'd have the same problem today, and would even likely spell chicken wrong.........
 
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