Pronunciations

[+tango501]

After many discussions with geo-pals I wonder how you pronounce CITO.

 

Is it SIE TOE

Is it SEE TOE

Is it KIE TOE

 

or something totally different?

 

pipe in any Lackeys for your input as well, since you guys came up with it anyways

 

posting on FB to see results as well

 

I am just curious

 

as always Have fun, be safe and happy hunting

[Mr.Yuck]

After many discussions with geo-pals I wonder how you pronounce CITO.

 

Is it SIE TOE

Is it SEE TOE

Is it KIE TOE

 

or something totally different?

 

pipe in any Lackeys for your input as well, since you guys came up with it anyways

 

posting on FB to see results as well

 

I am just curious

 

as always Have fun, be safe and happy hunting

 

I will say the consensus (in Western NY and Ontario at least) is SIGH TOE (I assume the same as your "sie toe"

 

I will also tell you that back when CEO Jeremy Irish used to post in these forums, he had said he said every letter, as in SEE EYE TEE OH. I know, because that's what *I* used to say, but peer pressure has forced me to roll with SIGH TOE.

[+cerberus1]

My immediate area, we say sit oh.

[Glory Hunters]

My immediate area, we say sit oh.

 

same here!

[+baloo&bd]

SEE-toe

 

Never heard anyone use anything else.

Edited August 3, 2014 by baloo&bd

[team tisri]

I've mostly heard KITE-OH

[+Twentse Mug]

KITAAHW (another option from the Podcacher Podcast)

[+TriciaG]

There you go: five or six responses with five or six different answers! I guess it's best to go with your local consensus rather than pursuing a worldwide one.

[+Bigmada]

SEE TOE

[+Manville Possum]

My immediate area, we say sit oh.

 

same here!

Yes, it's sit-oh around here.

[+niraD]

I pronounce it SEE-EYE-TEE-OH, but I've heard several other pronunciations as well...

[+Ma & Pa]

SEE TOE

 

That is what I have heard in Maritimes. That would also be the french pronunciation so it makes it easy for the bilingual people here.

[+Mudfrog]

SEE-toe

 

Never heard anyone use anything else.

 

I read the OP's question and thought for sure there would be only one answer. Boy was i wrong!

 

In all my years here, SEE-TOE is the only way i've ever heard it pronounced.

[+Pork King]

SEE-toe

 

Never heard anyone use anything else.

 

Around here (Mississippi) we say it SEA-tow. SEE-toe just sounds weird.

[Mr.Yuck]

This is some funny stuff, isn't it? How can you go wrong with saying it out, SEE EYE TEE OH? Then again, you'll get funny looks and WFT's if you happen to be from an area where everyone says SIGH TOE or SEE TOE. I guess you can't win.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

This is some funny stuff, isn't it? How can you go wrong with saying it out, SEE EYE TEE OH? Then again, you'll get funny looks and WFT's if you happen to be from an area where everyone says SIGH TOE or SEE TOE. I guess you can't win.

 

I have always read it at See Toe. I don't care what anyone else thinks about how I pronounce it.

[+Chief301]

I've often wondered about this....

[+cerberus1]

I have always read it at See Toe. I don't care what anyone else thinks about how I pronounce it.

Well, if you read it at See Toe, of course you'd likely say it the way the locals do.

[+Mockingbird559]

I have always said... SEA-tow or SEE-toe.

 

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

 

cash happy

[+wmpastor]

I have always said... SEA-tow or SEE-toe.

 

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

 

cash happy

 

 

ca·chetkaˈSHā/noun1.the state of being respected or admired; prestige."no other shipping company had quite the cachet of Cunard"synonyms:prestige, status, standing, clout, kudos, snob value, stature, preeminence

 

Spend cash (pronounced cash) on your cache (pronounced cash) container and your cache will have cachet (see above). Cache is never pronounced the same as cachet.

 

CITO? You're always safe saying each letter - or just follow the crowd.

[+Viajero Perdido]

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

No we're not.

 

It's only el ca-SHAY in Spanish.

[+The_Incredibles_]

I've always thought it was pronounced SEE-TOE, however my world was shattered when I watched some official Groundspeak videos and they pronounced it SIGH-TOE. I'm not sure how I'm going to get my brain wrapped around that.

[+Harry Dolphin]

You say SEA-TOW

I say Sit oh

Let's call the whole thing off.

(As in CITI Bank)

[+Ma & Pa]

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

No we're not.

 

It's only el ca-SHAY in Spanish.

 

I know an Ex US Marine who caches part time and who says ca-shay. I always found that interesting since one of the definitions seems military

 

Cache :a hiding place, especially one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.:

[+irisisleuk]

I think in every country/area with a different language/dialect people will pronounce it differently.

Just like the word geocaching, which I pronounce different when I'm in the Netherlands compared to for instance when I'm caching in the U.K.

Words get adopted in another language, but it doesn't mean the same pronunciation will be used.

As long as everybody writes it the same way it doesn't really matter to me. But since geocaching is often written (and pronounced) as geocashing, geocatching, and geocasing, I wonder what CITO will change into [].

[+narcissa]

After many discussions with geo-pals I wonder how you pronounce CITO.

 

Is it SIE TOE

Is it SEE TOE

Is it KIE TOE

 

or something totally different?

 

pipe in any Lackeys for your input as well, since you guys came up with it anyways

 

posting on FB to see results as well

 

I am just curious

 

as always Have fun, be safe and happy hunting

 

I will say the consensus (in Western NY and Ontario at least) is SIGH TOE (I assume the same as your "sie toe"

 

I will also tell you that back when CEO Jeremy Irish used to post in these forums, he had said he said every letter, as in SEE EYE TEE OH. I know, because that's what *I* used to say, but peer pressure has forced me to roll with SIGH TOE.

 

The consensus in my part of Ontario is "SEE TOE."

[+Mockingbird559]

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

No we're not.

 

It's only el ca-SHAY in Spanish.

 

I know an Ex US Marine who caches part time and who says ca-shay. I always found that interesting since one of the definitions seems military

 

Cache :a hiding place, especially one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.:

 

One person in particular, who says ca-SHAY, is indeed ex-military. What strikes me as odd is that he does not say geo-ca-SHAY-ing. Never heard anyone say that. But I have never been to Spain.

 

cash happy

[Mr.Yuck]

After many discussions with geo-pals I wonder how you pronounce CITO.

 

Is it SIE TOE

Is it SEE TOE

Is it KIE TOE

 

or something totally different?

 

pipe in any Lackeys for your input as well, since you guys came up with it anyways

 

posting on FB to see results as well

 

I am just curious

 

as always Have fun, be safe and happy hunting

 

I will say the consensus (in Western NY and Ontario at least) is SIGH TOE (I assume the same as your "sie toe"

 

I will also tell you that back when CEO Jeremy Irish used to post in these forums, he had said he said every letter, as in SEE EYE TEE OH. I know, because that's what *I* used to say, but peer pressure has forced me to roll with SIGH TOE.

 

The consensus in my part of Ontario is "SEE TOE."

 

OK, I'll change that to The Regional Municipality of Niagara. Of course now someone from the Regional Municipality of Niagara is going to post here that everyone in their town says SEE TOE.

[+wmpastor]

There you go: five or six dozen responses with five or six dozen different answers! I guess it's best to go with your local consensus rather than pursuing a worldwide one.

There you go - I fixed it for you to update it!

 

Whoever started the thread created successful discussion.

 

And in conclusion, pronouncing cache as ca-SHAY' in the US is confusing words. "Cachet," pronounced ca-SHAY, is an entirely different word.

[+Pork King]

I have always said... SEA-tow or SEE-toe.

 

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

 

cash happy

 

There was a geocacher 'round here that would call it a "catch". He went geocatching to find catches.

[Mr.Yuck]

I have always said... SEA-tow or SEE-toe.

 

However I have heard people say SIGH toe. These are the same people who say ca-SHAY rather than cash.

 

cash happy

 

There was a geocacher 'round here that would call it a "catch". He went geocatching to find catches.

 

That is actually somewhat common, and www.geocatching.com works (try it), just for those people.

[+.Flo.]

We say TSEE-TOE

[+colleda]

SIGH TOE in our part of Oz. FWIW.

[+TerraViators]

In north Texas, I've mostly heard see toe, but I do her sit toe also.

[+DanOCan]

Seems to be a SEE-TOE around here for the most part.

[+Yno]

I gotta be more sociable. I have never heard it spoken.

[+Hack1of2]

In our little patch of paradise in Wisconsin I hear SEE-TOW about 60 percent of the time and SIGH-TOW 40 percent of the time.

[+Bigmada]

I always say SEE TOE and I get strange looks.

[+HHL]

 

Hans

[+J Grouchy]

It's not an actual word, folks...pronounce it however you want.

 

 

 

 

 

That being said, SEE-toe is the right way.

[+cerberus1]

I always say SEE TOE and I get strange looks.

Maybe because most all-around here say SIT TOE.

[+narcissa]

Around here's it seems to be pronounced "SEE TOE" but I have heard other variations.

[+hzoi]

I've always heard SEE-tow, and that's from ones I've attended in northern Virginia, tidewater Virginia, middle Alabama, and tidewater Maryland.

 

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

Edited April 24, 2017 by hzoi

[+HHL]

[...]

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

All nuances of pronunciation are present her in Germany.

Personally I'm preferring SIE TOE.

 

Hans

[+hzoi]

[...]

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

All nuances of pronunciation are present her in Germany.

Personally I'm preferring SIE TOE.

 

Hans

Is that the German pronunciation of Sie (as in, Sprechen Sie deutsch)?

Edited April 24, 2017 by hzoi

[+Gill & Tony]

SEE TOE seems to be the norm in southern NSW. I will ask around on Sunday and see what others say.

[+colleda]

SEE TOE seems to be the norm in southern NSW. I will ask around on Sunday and see what others say.

To me its SIGH TOE. Can't really recall hearing how anyone else says it in geocaching conversation.

[+HHL]

[...]

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

All nuances of pronunciation are present her in Germany.

Personally I'm preferring SIE TOE.

 

Hans

Is that the German pronunciation of Sie (as in, Sprechen Sie deutsch)?

No. It's the English pronunciation ( as being expected in an English written post).

 

Hans

[+NYPaddleCacher]

[...]

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

All nuances of pronunciation are present her in Germany.

Personally I'm preferring SIE TOE.

 

Hans

Is that the German pronunciation of Sie (as in, Sprechen Sie deutsch)?

No. It's the English pronunciation ( as being expected in an English written post).

 

Hans

 

Sie may be English but it's not commonly used, so probably isn't the best example for pronunciation. In fact, searching for "how to pronounce sie" brings up two results with audio with different pronunciations.

I have always pronounced CITO as See Toe

[+hzoi]

[...]

I don't remember how they pronounced it in Germany, now that I think about it.

All nuances of pronunciation are present her in Germany.

Personally I'm preferring SIE TOE.

 

Hans

Is that the German pronunciation of Sie (as in, Sprechen Sie deutsch)?

No. It's the English pronunciation ( as being expected in an English written post).

 

Hans

Since "SIE" isn't a common English word but is a very common German word, it wasn't really clear; hence my question.