Is it "coyote" or "Keeotee"?

milkman · Jun 27, 2005

Re: Is it \"coyote\" or \"Keeotee\"?

( you know the old rule about a silent E from grade school. )

Oh yea, Sr. Mary Ancilla made sure that wasn't forgotten. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bob_Skurka · Jun 27, 2005

Re: Is it \"coyote\" or \"Keeotee\"?


Oh yea, Sr. Mary Ancilla made sure that wasn't forgotten. 

Ahh, I see. Well one of the beautiful things in life is that we get to grow up and send our kids to Catholic school. . . but the nuns are not teaching at the school my daughter goes to /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Fortunately we have a very involved, and very scary principal who makes a pretty darn good substitute for a nun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If only the school year was running, I would send "KIOTI" into the class to get the official pronounciation.

KiotiJohn · Jun 28, 2005

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( But then my vote would likely tip in favor of eliminating the long "E" on the end . . . you know the old rule about a silent E from grade school.)
The word Coyote is Spanish and the e on the end is not silent, so let's not drop it just yet! Pronounced Coy O tay in the Spanish language, I'll never understand how we English speakers got Ki o tee out of it other than that we simply dropped the first 'O' out.
John

Alan L. · Jun 29, 2005

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I didn't realize there was a logo. Well, now I know what to call it. If they have a coyote logo, I wonder why they didn't just name them "Coyote"?

KiotiJohn · Jun 29, 2005

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( I didn't realize there was a logo. Well, now I know what to call it. If they have a coyote logo, I wonder why they didn't just name them "Coyote"? )
Maybe it's not possible for a word like coyote to be trademarked. I seem to remember something about not being able to use certain words as a brand name for trademark, but I may be dreaming.
John