+Team Cacheopeia Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 See-toe? sigh-toe? sit-toe? or just plain see-i-tee-o? Amer and Bel Quote
+Jeremy Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 see-i-tee-o for me. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Quote
+Bilder Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 I say See-Toe. I am too lazy for the extra sylables ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have never been lost. Been awful confused for a few days, but never lost! N61.12.041 W149.43.734 Quote
+Shadow's Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 Ok, for us new uninformed hunters, What the heck are you talking about? Quote
+mortaine Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 They're talking about how to pronounce "CITO," which stands for Cache In Trash Out. Quote
+MercRocks Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 SIT O Without your brain, a map is a piece of coloured paper, a compass is a glorified magnet, and a GPS is a waterproof battery case." " Foothills SAR " Quote
+Team Cacheopeia Posted August 13, 2003 Author Posted August 13, 2003 Y'all are not very helpful. In 3 posts, you've given me 3 different answers. Jeremy, does yours weigh more since you're the big Geocaching Guy? Amer and Bel Quote
Aksor+Raskol Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 Enough with the freakin' acronyms. Just say "cache in/trash out"! IMHO there are too many acronyms. LOL! BBFN Quote
+Snoogans Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 sigh-toe Sngans Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain. Quote
+Snoogans Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Shadow's:Ok, for us new uninformed hunters, What the heck are you talking about? ROFLMAO What forum is this? Sngans Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain. Quote
+trippy1976 Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 I say see-toe also. -------- trippy1976 - Team KKF2A Saving geocaches - one golf ball at a time. Quote
Eeyore and Shadow Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 I say it C I T O. but I've heard a lot of people say see-toe and I often have to stop and think about what they are saying. It always seems odd to hear see-toe. Eeyore A rocking chair or a porch swing with an old person in it is a histroy lesson. Quote
+ClayJar Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 I pronounce CITO correctly: "SEE-toe" First, the two-syllable pronounciation is analogous to the two-syllable pronounciation 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 pronounciations. 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 pronounciation. The short I form yields a pronounciation 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 prounciation 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 Networks ]]] Home of Watcher downloads, Official Geocaching Chat, and the Geocache Rating System Quote
+Team Cacheopeia Posted August 14, 2003 Author Posted August 14, 2003 That was a far more objective and thought-out answer than I'd expected to get. But I'm sold on see-toe. Amer and Bel Quote
Dandan360 Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 See-Toe is the best one for a quick abbreviation, but if you want to be really technical you should just use the letters by themselves. Quote
+Thrak Posted July 17, 2006 Posted July 17, 2006 usually I say sigh-toe but sometimes see-eye-tee-oh --- either way I usually end up having to explain that it's cache in trash out............. Quote
+ByrnedFish Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 sigh toe for me, actually its more of a sigh-doe, cuz who pronounces Ts any more? Quote
+TrailBound Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 Ooohh...Having a background in speech and language pathology, I often wondered how people around the geocaching world would pronounce this. I see the emergence of regional dialects in everyone's choice. Nice! I too would choose the /cito/ 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. So, in chosing I think this would be the easiest for pronunciation of CITO as a word. Regionally though, I can see why it differs. Interesting thread. Quote
+Super_Nate Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 Most of the time I call it C-I-T-O, but when I'm lazy I will say Sit-oe Quote
+bumblingbs Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 Whoa, Clayjar's answer was good! I think Trailbound's was, too, but I'm going to have to read it over again to see if I understand it. see-toe! Quote
+Trucker Lee Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 Just pick up the stinking trash and haul it out of there!! Quote
+Cache_advance Posted September 7, 2006 Posted September 7, 2006 See-Doe for me... I have read Trailbounds description too, but I can't figure out what their final answer is? See-Toe? or Sigh-Toe? But after all that, in the end, Trucker LEe is right. Just get it out of there!! Quote
+Rev Mike Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Whatever I feel fits the moment. - Rev Mike Quote
+Dahaku Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 Don't care how we say it. So long as we do it! Quote
+DaveA Posted October 8, 2006 Posted October 8, 2006 It isn't communication unless the hearer understands. Therefore the correct pronunciation is 'cache in, trash out' as there can be no confusion. All other pronunciations are equally acceptable/unacceptable. Either the person gets it or they look confused and you end up saying 'cache in, trash out' anyway. Any way you look at it, just make sure you do it. It is a good, noble, selfless thing to do. If there is such a thing as karma, then you score points too! (You don't want to come back as a toad eating bugs do you? Well, do you!?) Practice CITO or get reincarnated as a toad is my motto. Quote
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