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To: hiho hiho
A question that's a little off-side, can anyone tell me the correct pronunciation of that name "Choate"?
12 posted on 07/05/2003 9:16:09 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: sciencediet
Just a guess but using the word inchoate as a guide I would say it's pronounced ko-ate.
17 posted on 07/05/2003 9:29:04 AM PDT by xp38
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To: sciencediet
I have hearded it prounounced with a hard "CH" as in "choke" and a soft "CH" as in "show". The O is always long, and the A and E are always silent.

In other words
Chote
Shote

I would provide diacritical marks, but I can't figure out how.
19 posted on 07/05/2003 9:42:22 AM PDT by OrangeDaisy
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To: sciencediet
In Tennessee it is pronounced "Shote" with a long "O" and silent "E".
22 posted on 07/05/2003 9:50:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: sciencediet
New a man named Choate. He pronounced his name the same as what we call a baby pig.
27 posted on 07/05/2003 11:39:56 AM PDT by FreePaul
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To: sciencediet
A question that's a little off-side, can anyone tell me the correct pronunciation of that name "Choate"?

There's a very snotty private school in NYC called the Choate School. It's pronounced "ch-oat" here, just like "boat" with a ch- before the "oat" instead of a "b-".

37 posted on 07/05/2003 3:35:16 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
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To: sciencediet
Bleah, my brain's not working on all cylinders today. Choate's not actually IN New York City, it's a boarding school up in Connecticut. But lots of NYC snotkids go there.
38 posted on 07/05/2003 3:38:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
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