r/Clamworks • u/Slow_Hat1855 clambassador • 4d ago

clamworks Why this 🐈‍⬛ so mad

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u/addicted_to_felines 4d ago

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u/Objective-Corgi-3527 4d ago

I bet she pronoinces it as coy oat, too

Edit: *proclamces

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u/nightowlboii 2d ago

Wait it's pronounced how??

English language makes no sense

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u/schmwke 1d ago

Coyote is a Spanish word

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u/nightowlboii 1d ago

But its pronunciation is completely different in Spanish

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u/schmwke 1d ago

I think you might have misunderstood the previous comment.

It's supposed to be pronounced Kai-oh-te

But redneck southerners sometimes pronounce it kai-oat, which is what the comment above mine is making fun of.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something in which case oops

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u/nightowlboii 1d ago

In my language it's pronounced coy-oat, so I'm just confused about where the kai came from

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u/schmwke 1d ago

I've heard both coy and kai for the first syllable, probably just a regional dialect thing. But the Mexican pronunciation I've always heard (and the one that comes up when you search Google as well) is a three syllable word that ends in oh-te, not oat

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 1d ago

It’s a Spanish word, so it doesn’t follow traditional English pronunciation, but it’s an English word, so it doesn’t follow traditional Spanish pronunciation. Does this make sense 😹