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I've spent some years in Montana and a few other western states, and I've known a few cowboys and I figured if they pronounced it "shaps" instead of "chaps", like it's spelled, then I'll say it like they say it: "shaps". My wife says "chaps", and chuckles when I say 'shaps", but I figure if the great, late rodeo Champ, Chris LeDoux says "shaps" then I will too! :biglaugh: I figure that cowboys are more qualified on this pronunciation than some big city cologne maker like Ralph Lauren is, so here's a general question for you people:
How are you yourself pronouncing the word "chaps"?
Have fun with it, ya bad azz bikers, and let a little bit of cowboy come out, heheheh. :wayhappy:
TakerEasy....
 
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wildAKmoose said:
Welp, maybe we've determined that it's a regional thing. A friend of mine was an Idaho state champ bronc rider and he wore shaps. Another friend of mine had pins in his knees from the South Dakota buckin' horses of his youth slamin' the fences, and when I asked, he said he wore shaps. "It ain't chaps", he told me. That friend also rode a Vole. An ol' beer drinkin' cowboy team roper friend of mine in Montana, since past, wore shaps when he was healin'.
That's good enough for me :wayhappy:
Fun answers here, VoleRiders, TakerEasy....
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That's good enough for me from now on it'll be shaps. :D
 
#39 ·
NCBoulevard said:
Born2bWild said:
:lol: This reminds me of a conversation I had with my sister in law about how you pronounce Celtic!
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The team or the language? :roll: :twisted:
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That was my point. I was trying to tell her that unless she's talking about a Boston Basketball team........
She argued and argued and argued til she was blue in the face. (the FUNNY part is what her name is!) Finally she was YELLING at me that she's never heard of a C pronounced with a K sound!!! I got really quiet, got a smirk on my face and said......really.....????? CAROLYN??????

:lol: :lol: It was priceless I tell ya!
 
#40 ·
Born2bWild said:
NCBoulevard said:
Born2bWild said:
:lol: This reminds me of a conversation I had with my sister in law about how you pronounce Celtic!
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The team or the language? :roll: :twisted:
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That was my point. I was trying to tell her that unless she's talking about a Boston Basketball team........
She argued and argued and argued til she was blue in the face. (the FUNNY part is what her name is!) Finally she was YELLING at me that she's never heard of a C pronounced with a K sound!!! I got really quiet, got a smirk on my face and said......really.....????? CAROLYN??????

:lol: :lol: It was priceless I tell ya!
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...not to mention MY name... :)
 
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I live in West Texas where approximately 2/3 of my neighborhood goes to work every day wearing their chaps to fend off the chaparral while chaperoning their Charbray and Charolais beef cattle. Later, after washing their trucks, and wiping them with a chamois, they'll put on a clean chambray shirt, and drive to a steak dinner beneath a chandelier made of buckhorns. It is to the chagrin of no one that many of our words developed from the romance languages.

Around here, it's pronounced "sh", but of course we are out in the middle of nowhere, and probably not as keen on the lingo as you nice folks up near Chappaquid*ck, where of course, YMMV.
 
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