Stop mispronouncing coyote

[FLOOB]

It’s not three syllables in English, it’s not a Spanish word. It’s origin is a TWO SYLLABLE American word. Stop ruining yet another word. Stop the jerseyfication!

[AKIron]

I grew up in Texas and it was always pronounced with the three syllables. Just sounds wrong to hear it with only two.

[The Fugitive]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coyote

[Eagler]

The way many sound when they try to speak for what passes for English in this country today, I won't care if they say it with 3 syllables...least of our communications issues...

Eagler

[AKIron]

[AKIron]

Though my granddaughter, an alumni of the College of Idaho (Yotes), might disagree.

[Busher]

Next project... yosemite 

[Meatwad]

Wile-E Coy-o-te

[Getback]

Three syllables make it more yodel like.

[Bizman]

What puzzles me more than the count of syllables in coyote is how the first syllable is pronounced. How can anyone tell how a word is pronounced by looking at the way it's written? "I", "aye", "eye" and in this case "oy"... "Ki-oht" or "Ki-Ohtee" is how I'd transcribe it if I heard it the first time.

[AKKuya]

Co-yah-oh-tay.

4 syllables.

[FLOOB]

The English word coyote comes from the Native American word koyotl. The Spanish word also comes from koyotl but hispanocized with Spanish phonetics.

English- Kai-oat
Spanish- koi-oat-tay
Kai-oat-tee is just linguistic vandalism

The E on the end is just to indicate that the preceding letter o is long, like tote or wrote. If it was meant to have a third syllable the word would’ve ended in a letter I or Y like they did with wapiti.

Say it the way Ben Franklin, Squanto, Daniel Boone and Chief Joeseph did.

[Bizman]

I feel your pain, things that have been equally well argumented to be wrong have been accepted to be grammatically correct in my native tongue as well. Languages live and evolve, we get old and stubborn.

When Grandpa Trump moved to America, the name was pronounced differently than today. John Morton Sr. changed his name to please his English fiancee - not a big deal since the Swedish registrars already had swedicized the name. I wonder how you'd pronounce Juhani Marttinen...

[AKIron]

Sorry but now I'll just be looking for ways to bring up ki-oh-tees in conversation. Okay, not sorry.

[eddiek]

I have fun irritating one of the women who graduated high school with me, the class president no less, about "rodeo" vs "ro-day-oh", and her full conversion into California mannerisms since we graduated and she moved away.  Her explanation is that it's more cultured the way they say it.  I tell her it's more retarded the way they say it. We go back and forth, on and on and on.............it's a blast.