data-mm-id=”_5vukpw1fn”>How do you pronounce things? It's a complicated matter with a rich history of confusion going back to at least 1937 when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers debated the correct way to say "tomato." Just last week we learned how we're supposed to pronounce Nevada. Earlier this week, I was having a discussion with some friends about polecats. Eventually, we shared a laugh at the way some people might say coyote. The official pronunciation is kai-ow-tee, but you may have heard people on television or even in real life (specifically, Colorado) say kai-oat or kai-yote. So my follow-up question for these people is whether they call the infamously ineffective Warner Brothers character Wile E. Coyte something along the lines of Why-lee Kai-oat. It would …