Same here in KS, though I can't speak for Kansas City or the tree huggers in Lawrence.

Well, I'm not a metrosexual, but I've always pronounced it KI-O-TEE, as nearly everyone here also does. I suppose the Mexican Spanish speakers out west get peeved at all you who pronounce it KI-OTE, since that isn't how the word is pronounced in their native tongue (whilst getting peeved at us easterners, who also butcher it). And, somewhere, is a Nahuatl native who is peeved at all the Mexican Spanish speakers who butcher the word's original pronunciation. ;)

I sure would love it if the pelts went for $100 each. We have gobs of the varmints here and it would make for an enjoyable second income.

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Don't know what metrosex is, but we put an "E" on the end of ki-ote.

Now back to this metro stuff, is that kind of like the "Mile high club" but on public transportation or something?????????????????

Although not so much anymore. I hear "KY - oh - tee" and occasionally "KY - ote" as well as a few derivations and many, many expletives.

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I imagine a lot of people East, West, North, and South have seen the old Loonie Tunes Road Runner cartoons with Wile E. Coyote. Coyote is pronounced Koy-o-tee so it rhymes with "Wile E.". It's more a case of Poe-tay-toe, Poe-tah-toe, Toe-may-toe,toe-mah-toe than anything else.

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Rule #2 It's all small stuff.

It's like the dog with no legs. Don't matter what you call him, he aint coming

Ahem....Wile E. Coyote got it right, and so educated millions of Americans in the proper pronunciation of the term. "coyote"

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I pronounce it "tar' get".