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okeetee? is it (oh-key-tea) or is it (oh-ka-tea?)
i just want to know so i can tell people the correct one. i dont know why im even asking. i have a normal. u can see him/her in the photo section under "christmas corn" thanks. bye
 
No "right" answer, IMO

It really depends on whether you are from the Northeast or from the Deep South ;)

Ask elrojo. He is the keeper from Carolina. :)
 
I think phonetically, it's oh - kea (as in Ikea) - tee (as in golf tee). I've heard oh-kee (as in key)-tee (as in golf tee) as well. Never heard Oh-ka-tee, and phoneticaly that doesn't make sense. It's probably a native american name, so oh-key-tea will probably be correct. But there's my british grammar school lesson for the day.

-Lemur 6
 
I most often hear

O-key-tea. I don't think using two e's, ea, or ey makes much difference in the pronunciation, though.

And I live farther south than elrojo :D
 
I was under the impression that if you're from North Carolina (where the Okeetee Hunt Club is), you would pronounce it Oh-ka-tee. But practically everyone who's learned it from seeing it in written form probably says Oh-kee-tee, because that's the way it looks. *shrug*
 
Asking a hillbilly how to pronounce anything is probably not a good idea . . . but it's pronounced (Oak-a-tee).

I'm sure the Native word from which it derived is something entirely different than that, but that's the way things go. The Europeans couldn't pronounce "Tsalaghi" correctly, either, and it got Anglicized to "Cherokee." Go figure . . .
 
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