How Do You Pronounce "Coyote"?

I say it with the tea, but I notice a lot of people saying it with oat. Both are acceptable according to MW.

ky-OAT is regional. ky-O-tee is preferred by educated speakers.

r1, "acceptable" by whom? The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.

Are manigot instead of manicotti and pasta fazool Italian-American usages or from some certain regions in Italy?

Both are acceptable when referring to the four-legged animal. If referring to the two-legged divorcee, the pronunciation is "hore".

I've never heard anyone say ky-oat! WTF? I've always heard (and said) ky-o-tee.

I've always said "KY-uh-tay"

R3 ain't the linguist he thinks he is. Dictionaries each have their own rules (prescriptive? descriptive?) and the roles of first and second definitions differ.

I call them Mexican dogs.

Prescriptive dictionaries tell us how words should be pronounced. Descriptive include alternate pronunciations.

Redneck dumbass pronounciation: Ki-OAT

Pronounciation if you don't want to look like a shitkicker to the rest of the world: Ki-o-tee.

Seriously. I don't care what your dictionary says.

R3 is a fucking piece of shit. (Pronounced "sheet.")

ko-YOH-tay

You can pronounce it any way you like, just give me a job!

I say ky-OH-tee.

I thought only John Wayne said ky-OAT! I never heard anyone else say it that way.

I've heard Latin Americans say Koh-yoh-tay, though.

LMAO.. English is my second language, but even I know hot to pronounce coyote..

Two periods?

Hot?

Really?

Don't flatter yourself.

[quote]I thought only John Wayne said ky-OAT! I never heard anyone else say it that way.

And if John Wayne says it that way, it automatically correct.

Here on the prairie (where we actually have them) we say ky-Oat.

It's also a Ro-de-o, unless you're talking about a street in Los Angeles.

Fuck you, Western Podnah @ R18:

Coyotes are all over the South now, as are armadillos, nutria, and fire ants.

I grew up among cowboys who agreed with R18, but they are both Spanish words, thus those pronunciations are gringo bastardizations of the correct ones.

I don't care what kind of petting zoo you folks down south run, R19, and I sure as Hell don't care how they say it in Mexican. I'm just telling you how real Americans (like John Wayne) talk.

Fuck you with a tumbleweed on a broomstick, Nebraskan.

Tell your pal John Wayne he's a douche nozzle.

People who live near the Appalchian mountains say Appa-LA-chin. The rest of America hears appa-LAY-chin on radio and TV.

Most people who live in regions where there are coyotes call them ky-oats. Most people who live elsewhere call them ky-oh-tees.

I have always thought that the people who live there get to decide on the proper pronunciation. So it's properly Mi-zoor-ah and Ellenoy (occasionally Ellenoise), not Mi-zoor-ee and Illinoy. It's John Quinsee Adams but Quinzee, Massachusetts. It's Baldimer, not Balltimore.

So I vote for ky-oats.

[quote]So it's properly Mi-zoor-ah

That depends on where you live in the state.

TX city dweller. I say Ky-oh-tee, but the country folks say ky-oat.

The little critters are all over the place down here.

We have coyotes in the northeast now.

Poor things are looking for food R27. They are fairly harmless. Once in awhile a small dog or cat will get taken but for the most part they are scavengers looking through trash and pet food bowls left outside. I see them all the time in the streets here and half the time I mistake them for mangy dogs.

How the fuck do you think?

I plonounce it ezactry rike karate.

I pronounce it as Co-yo-tay

Kai-yo-tea

People who pronounce it "kai-yoht" are rubes.

Here's another one. Do you guys says aunt like "ant" or like "ahnt"?

Hon some folks down South say aint. Otherwise it's ant.

Andy Taylor sometimes said "Ain't Bea" if you listen closely

I lived in California where we had Kai-yo-tees and in Colorado where we had Kai-yohts, so I don't totally buy R24's logic.

It's regional, but Kai-yo-tee does sound better. I would also consider it more proper. And fuck off Nebraskan, you aren't more American than anyone else.

The OP is right and wrong... "OAT" is the pronunciation of the second syllable and "tea" is the pronunciation of the THIRD syllable

ki-Oat-ee.

Kai Oh Tay. Hay

"People who pronounce it 'kai-yoht' are rubes."

Are they at least well scrubbed?

[quote]The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.

According to whom?

What horseshit. You just pulled that one completely out of your ass.

Does anyone know why there are coyotes all across North America now? They are even in PEI, Cape Breton and Newfoundland - islands in Eastern Canada.

I've always pronounced it "Patti LuPone." I mean, it's the same face.

Throat Warbler Mangrove

KI-oats

It's pronounced "white trash wolf."

"Eat More Lamb -- 10,000 Coyotes Can't Be Wrong"

Kye-YO-tay

Anyone who says "kai-oat" is a complete moron.

The correct pronunciation is KAI-OH-TAH!

I've wondered, but it's been awhile since I spoke with a furriner, but what is unique to 'mericun English as compared with that new "Business English" as well as UK, Aussie, etc? How do Germans, for instance, tell immediately where we are from, except for the other obvious things we won't go into here?

Those that say cyOAT are the same rednecks that call it Missoura

I thought that the difference was an American v Canadian thing.

it's pronounced "ky-oat" if you've actually gone outside to do something other than tan in your life.

Why isn't is spelled: Ciaote

It's pronounced "Coy-oat" by 'muricans who think you're a-comin' to take away their guuns.

Ki O tay tay. I like to jazz it up.

No regrets, K'eye-oat-tea!

R55, that would be pronounced "CHOWtay." It would be Italian.

I pronounce it "kyOHdee."

City people who will probably never actually see a real coyote will pronounce it with a long "e" sound. Country people who encounter the animals frequently will pronounce it with the "oat" ending. I a city person but I pronounce it with an "oat". However, I've seen them on several occasions. I think they are cute. They rarely attack humans and there are no documented cases of them killing a human.

I like the demure lady like way," Kye"

Isn't it a Spanish word, in which case you pronounce all the vowels (however incorrectly)?

R60, they do however attack and kill pets which has become a problem in some suburban areas.

Ky-OAT sounds a bit too Grapes of Wrath for me.

The Spanish pronunciation (Koi-YO-tay) sounds much more elegant.

I went to a museum in Mexico City. There was a large matrix on the wall, dividing Mexican society into 16 groups.

The first square was all Spanish blood, and each additional square would have more native, and then black, blood.

It struck me as shockingly racist.

There were names for each square. The only one I remember was the last: Coyotes.

I see coyotes, fox, deer, skunks, raccoons and groundhog in my 65 year old suburban neighborhood. Rural land is probably 30 miles away. Those critters are adaptable.

How does Joni Mitchell pronounce it? Ky-o-tee?

R68: Joni Mitchell never lies.

(Well, except for about how relentlessly perfect her music was.)

There is (used to be?) a restaurant in Laurel Canyon called "Caioti," which is how I would imagine you'd spell it in Italian (and maybe it's the Italian word for the animal?)

How would Miss Bette Davis pronounce it

KY-OAT-EE. not KY-OH-TEE,

"Cai-HOOOOO-Tee"

You see what I do there: I make a howling sound like a coyote in the middle.

My listeners seem to like my vocal exuberance.

Try it, DLers!

KY is for the tube of shit that lubes up your hole for a good fucking.

The word is Spanish in origin (Mexican Nahuatl), so it's pronounced KO-YO'-TE (that last syllable is pronounce like TENSE after dropping the -NSE).

You're welcome.

Ees plonounced to lhyme weeth Kara-Tay. Accent on TAY.

No, R75. Ees not French, pendenjo. Ees Spanish. Ees pronounced ko-YO-te.

[quote]The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.

"Sub-standard"? That's not how it works--you pulled that out of your ass.

Ay ay ay, Salma. It's pendejo not "pendenjo."

I just say "ohh loook at the dogggggie. So cute wild doggie woggie!!"

It's coy like roy

Oat like wrote

So say Roy Oat and there you have it.

Best pronunciation ever. Thread closed.

SU-per GEEN-ius!

Actually, the original pronunciation from the Meso-American language (including Aztecan, see Wikipedia: 'Huehuecoyotle') is:

Co-'YO-teh{tei} - accent, 2nd syllable; the 'o' in the 1st syllable NOT joined with the 'y' in the 2nd syllable producing an incorrect 'coy'; say it syllable-by-syllable, slowly, then with more speed as your tongue and lips get used to the diction using the accent-mark.

And yes, it also meant 'trickster' - even then.

East coast here. I've seen as many coyotes in my life as I have road runners, and they've all been cartoons.

Everyone here says "ki-OAT-ee."

KAI-OH-TAY

If you live in either Arkansas or Oklahoma, you rarely hear anyone pronounce it with tea sound at the end. But we are pretty much all hick and redneck. I vouch for us!

Hmm, Alaskan here from a rural area (wilderness) with plenty of coyotes, and we pronounce it kye-oat-ees, the so-called city way. I reckon we have far more kye-oat-tees than John Wayne-obsessive Nebraskans have kye-oats.

kigh-OH-tee

KY-OH-TEE

Judy Garland sang "Remember me to Harold Square." The square is Herald, named for a newspaper. Home of Macy's flagship store.

In the southwest it is "2 syllable. Would rhyme with "my oat." I believe the pronunciation is regional. I grew up in the Philly burbs and it was 3 syllables.

Male is kie-oat. Female is kie-oaty

Correct way! Last time I checked I wasn't Mexican. Or a redneck.

We don't have them here in my part of the Midwest, but we're with R88 on the pronunciation.

How do you pronounce garage? Is it gar-ridge or garah-ge?

r2

You mean white men who like to marginalize Ebonics.

Ki as in 'kite' + 'Yo, T'.

Ki.Yo.T.

This blogger pronounces it "Charlie".

We have coywolves.

Folks is dumb / Where I come from / They ain't had any learnin'

Still they're happy as can be / Wastin' 18 bucks pronouncin' ol' 'cayo-oh-tea'!

R94: Yes, you do; you just haven't seen them yet.

Here where we actually listen to the songs of the coyotes, it's ky-o-tee.

Let me just say that the majority of the comments here make Americans look bad.

And you bumped a three-year-old thread for THAT? That makes YOU look bad.

Most random thread bump ever.

Anyway, it's "kye-O-tee".

And yet some people wonder why other countries think Americans are either idiots or assholes or both.

The correct pronunciation is Coy-OH-tee (Spanish word adopted by Americans) however if you are American then pronounce it any way you want like everything else.