Pronunciation of the Abbreviation?

[+TeamHarrison]

OK, I've heard a few different pronunciations of the abbreviation, CITO. I'm wondering if there is an "official" or generally accepted "correct" pronunciation?

 

Is it?

 

A. Sea - toe.

B. Sit - toe.

C. Sigh-toe.

D. Sea - two.

E. Sit - two.

F. Sigh - two.

G. "Pick up trash thingy".

 

Thanks for the input.

 

[+MissJenn]

We've been discussing it since 2003, but I do not think we ever did reach consensus.

 

I know how I say it, and that's the correct way.

 

A. Sea - toe.

[+The Herd]

You forgot (key-toe).

 

I usually say (sea-toe).

[+TeamHarrison]

Hilarious! Thank you for the link to the past.

 

I think there are some pretty good justifications for SEA - TOE as what I'll go with. The whole Geo / CITO angle swayed me. LOL!

 

Thanks, again!

[general_tupperware]

See - Eye - Tee - Oh

[Mr.Yuck]

Hilarious! Thank you for the link to the past.

 

And notice the 2nd poster to that thread, after the OP, goes with Sea-I-tee-oh. (which I too, always did). How could he possibly be wrong?

 

But in reality, the most common one I've heard (in my neck of the woods, at least) is Sigh-toe. I dunno, best thing to do is just say Cache in trash out??

[+Kealia]

M-O-U-S-E!

 

Wait, wrong song....dang it.

[+Raine]

I always say:

 

C. Sigh-toe.

[Double Agents]

I thought it was either:

 

"Kie-Toe"

"Sea-I-Tea-Oh"

"Need to Pick Up Trash!!!"

 

The term "Cache" uses a 'hard C' that sounds like a 'K' instead of an 'S'. So I always figured it carried over to the Cache In, Trash Out... Phonetically, that'd be like: "Ka-sh Inn, Tra-sh Owt". So from that, it would make sence that the acronym of the phrase should carry on that convention.

 

Making my final answer be "Kie-Toe".

 

If the 'C' in Cache were prounounced with an 'S' sound instead of a 'K', then I could see the See, Sigh, Sit thing; however, it's not so I don't really think it's right. Which apparently puts me in a rather unpopular point of view, but that's ok... you can be wrong.

Edited March 11, 2007 by Double Agents

[leswon]

I never even thought about it being anything else but C. sigh-toe (it sounds nice) but I think kie-toe could make sense too.

[+Renegade Knight]

I always say:

 

C. Sigh-toe.

Ditto

[+Trucker Lee]

Don't pronounce it, just do it!!

[+Lotho]

A. Sea - toe.

[+Knight2000]

Never really thought about it. I wish someone would pick a way and go with it.

 

I use B.

[+MissJenn]

I wish someone would pick a way and go with it.

I think each of us has indeed done so.

[+QuesterMark]

OK, I've heard a few different pronunciations of the abbreviation, CITO. I'm wondering if there is an "official" or generally accepted "correct" pronunciation?

 

Is it?

 

A. Sea - toe.

B. Sit - toe.

C. Sigh-toe.

D. Sea - two.

E. Sit - two.

F. Sigh - two.

G. "Pick up trash thingy".

 

Thanks for the input.

 

 

Uh oh. Mentally I pronounce it "See Eye Toe". Outloud I say, "Trash Out" or sometimes "Cache In, Trash Out".

Neither of those are on your list....

[vtmtnman]

I've never had to say it aloud yet,but when I do I'll use method B.

 

Sit-toe.

[+Harry Dolphin]

I'm from Josey. I'd pronounce it SIT-oh. (Never elide the consonant to the second syllable!)

[+DENelson83]

How about "sight-o"? That's how I pronounce this acronym.

[+Robespierre]

I find it interesting that in 4 years I have never heard anything other than

 

sigh-toe (Maybe it's an Ohio thing.)

[+Lil Devil]

Don't pronounce it, just do it!!

Best post I've read so far

[+lacazg]

It's not an abbreviation, its the initials of the phrase "Cache In Trash Out". So thats why I would ay See-eye-tee-oh, (C-I-T-O).

[+Eartha]

I pronounce it Sea Tow, but fast - like CITO! It probably all depends what part of the world you are from and how it sounds with different accents.

 

CITO = where practice really does make perfect. No matter how you say it.

[+MissJenn]

CITO = where practice really does make perfect. No matter how you say it.

[+whistler & co.]

If you're a coal cracker from NEPA, it's "see-doe" (we don't use T's around here).

[Apollo Bob]

Isn't sea-toe the eventual cause of pirates needing peg legs?

[+Knobhiker]

At first I thought the "k" sounding of the "C" in CITO might be right. But going to the dictionary, words starting "ci-" are pronounced soft, "sea". Examples are citizen and citation. The "i" is pronounced as a short "i". Examples are as noted and the gasoline company Citgo. The "T" has only one sound. The "o" must be long sounded as in "logo", or "shinto". So by gramatical rules, CITO is pronounced "Sit-O".

 

But common convention rules over gramatical rules! I would conclude THE way to pronounce CITO is "Sight-O", like, "The sight o' that trash makes me want to clean it up!".

[+Knobhiker]

At first I thought the "k" sounding of the "C" in CITO might be right. But going to the dictionary, words starting "ci-" are pronounced soft, "sea". Examples are citizen and citation. The "i" is pronounced as a short "i". Examples are as noted and the gasoline company Citgo. The "T" has only one sound. The "o" must be long sounded as in "logo", or "shinto". So by gramatical rules, CITO is pronounced "Sit-O".

 

But common convention rules over gramatical rules! I would conclude THE way to pronounce CITO is "Sight-O", like, "The sight o' that trash makes me want to clean it up!".

[R/GBOTS]

I've always pronounced it sea-toe but here in Utah I've heard it as both sea-toe and sigh-to.

Never thought there would be more ways to say it.

Very interesting.

[+simpjkee]

I say C. sigh-toe.

 

Btw, I love this about the internet. I've aways pronounced it sigh-toe and never imagined it was pronounced any other way. then this thread reminds me that I've never heard anyone else other than me pronounce it so its suprising to see that other people pronounce it different ways.

[+ncfinn]

Definitely NOT sigh-toe.

 

Definitely see-tow (or sea-toe).

[+wesleykey]

I choose option c.

[+fox-and-the-hound]

I always say:

 

C. Sigh-toe.

Ditto

 

Finally!! I thought I was all alone

[+Redcap the Druid]

Wow... due to the word cache having a harder "k" sound, I was using kee-tow, but now I am confused

[lewis82]

I'll say sea-toe, because that's how we say it in french too

 

But I guess some people just say C-I-T-O.

[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

I'm from Josey. I'd pronounce it SIT-oh. (Never elide the consonant to the second syllable!)

 

Im not from Josey but I pronounce it the same.

[+TheVaultrons]

I vote for "sea-toe" as in Cito Gaston, they guy who managed the Toronto Blue Jays from '89 to '97.

[+VirginiaGator]

A vote for sigh-toe. For that to be a short i, in my mind that would need two "t"s.

[+tabulator32]

I agree with the Groundspeak Lackey from '04.

 

Sigh-Toe.

 

[+fairyhoney]

I always say:

 

C. Sigh-toe.

Ditto

 

Same here or even spell it out, you know C. I. T. O

[+Uncopyrighted]

Think about it... how do you pronounce FBI? CIA? NRA? NAACP?

Acronyms don't get pronounced, so spell it out: C-I-T-O. Then... the next closest thing to spelling it out is "Sigh-toe"

[+Great Scott!]

Since "cache" has a K sound I vote for

 

Kit-O

[+Great Scott!]

Think about it... how do you pronounce FBI? CIA? NRA? NAACP?

Acronyms don't get pronounced, so spell it out: C-I-T-O. Then... the next closest thing to spelling it out is "Sigh-toe"

 

How do you pronounce NASA or FEMA or NAFTA ???

Edited February 17, 2008 by Great Scott!

[+FireRef]

I say #1 - Sea-Toe

[+SKILLET]

CITO pronounced correctly: "SEE-toe"

 

First, the two-syllable pronunciation is analogous to the two-syllable pronunciation of "NATO"

 

Second, the leading C is pronounced the same way it is in many CI- words (CITY, CIDER, CINGULAR)

 

Finally, the "I" could have several pronunciations. You could have a short "I" sound, like the CI in CITY (sih-toe). You could have a long "I", like the CI in CIDER (sie-toe). You could also have a long-E-like sound, like the sounds used in Spanish or Japanese (?), which would give the see-toe pronunciation.

 

The short "I" form yields a pronunciation that doesn't quite roll off your tongue (not to mention, it sounds rather close to "sicko"). The long "I" form turns it into a harsh-sounding pair of two accented syllables. The long-E-like form, on the other hand, yields a pronunciation that is very similar to "GEO" both in rhythm (SEE-toe, JEE-oh) and vowel sound (long E, long O; long E, long O). This makes "CITO" a drop-in replacement for "GEO".

 

Anyway, the CITO (SEE-toe)/GEO parallel means that you can very simply and pleasantly replace the GEO prefix on all kinds of common terms. If you're going to a Cache In Trash Out event, you're going to a citocache (SEE-toe-cache). If you're going off to cache with the intention of cleaning up the area, you're citocaching (SEE-toe-caching). It "Just Fits"

 

Oh, incidentally, I asked Agent's text-to-speech function... "/msg ClayJar C-I-T-O is pronounced CITO"... and the winner is:

"SEE-toe"

 

-ClayJar,

Aug 14 2003

 

C - /s/ is fricative (lingua-alveolar) and the tongue is forward and teeth together in the mouth to create the ssss sound.

I - /i/ is a mopthong and the tongue is still forward and the teeth are still close together, but not closed as in the /s/

T - /t/ is a stop (lingua- alveolar) where the tongue touches the area just behind the back of the teeth. (many will make the /d/ sound because the sounds are almost exact in nature, anatomically speaking, the /d/ is just a voiced version of /t/)

O - /o/ thus the o is a long monopthong where the tongue is returning to a resting position

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TrailBound

, Aug 31 2006

 

 

[+NeoAddict]

I say Sigh-toe. Oooo, I'm a deviant!

[+Polarbz]

I go with sea-toe.

 

One guy around here says sit-troe.

[mouse88621]

I actually never gave this any thought until I saw this thread. I just always said "Cash In Trash Out." I almost couldn't believe there were so many variations.

[+SUp3rFM & Cruella]

Here in Portugal it's commonly pronounced as "see-two".

[+cachecrashers4]

Here in Maine, I have only heard it said See-tow. But then again, our cahs ah in ouh dooryahd.