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Old 01-25-2007, 12:23 PM   #1
 
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Default How do YOU say wapiti?
Do you pronounce it WAA-pi-tea?

Or waa-PI-tea?

I know it's from a Shawnee word for "white rump". But we can't seem to agree on how it's supposed to be pronounced!?


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wah pa tea
me too.

edit: I actually say it wah-pi-tee
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Old 01-25-2007, 04:07 PM   #5
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It's elk in english.
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Old 01-25-2007, 04:25 PM   #6
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ee cummings had it right...

It's pronounced WOPPITY....


As in his poem...

Hippity Hoppity goes the WAPITI...
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I prefer the redneck pronounciation: wapidee
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T-EH -ST -EE (tasty)
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E-L-K

couldn't resist.
i was gonan write that same thing as soon as i saw the title of this
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