Blair P. Houghton said:I don't think so. TV was invented before sound was added to movies.
Typical of your convolutions. Commercial beginnings of TV in the
consumer sense did not predate talkies. The very beginning of consumer
TV is generally considered to be 1939, the Worlds Fair, with real (and
very moderate) consumer TV to be 6-7 years later - after WWII. Talkies
began in 1927 and hit their stride very quickly.
TV in the sense of your original comments, such that a pronunciation
of any kind could be a 'TV thing', came decades after talkies were
common, and well after the first group of Western classics. FWIW, the
pronunciation you so deride was used by the some of the stars that
were originally real cowhands. And, yes, from New Mexico, Arizona, and
Wyoming.
BTW and FWIW, my brother, who has probably lived just outside Caspar
for more years than you appear to have been alive, also pronounces it
ki-yo'-te, which also FWIW happens to be much closer to the original
Aztec pronunciation. As he was/is an ardent hunter and spent a
considerable time with the Wyoming hunting crowd, something tells me
he's a bit more of an authority on how Wyoming ranchers and outdoors
people pronounce the word.
And it is the preferred dictionary pronunciation. Look it up.
Maybe its only the 60-70 pound coyotes that are pronounced ki-yotes'.
Or is it co-yotes? Or coy-otes perhaps? Haven't seen or heard of them
that size before, so you could be right. (For some reason, all of your
comments in this area remind me of the 'yellow dog' joke, that ends
with 'Before I cut off his tail and painted him yellow, I called him
an alligator.'😉
Well, enough arguing with 12 year olds. No one else seems to be taking
you very serious anyway. I guess we should all thank you for your
inadvertent and unintended humor.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
