Bow-E or Boo-E

QUOTE=nolaradio;11693278]Not sure if this has been brought up in another post or not. If it has, I couldn't find it. How do you pronounce Bowie? Bow-e or Boo-e. Let the debate begin. :)[/QUOTE]

:cool: Grew up with television, and learned every song about every Western character. I remember "His blade was tempered and so was he......indestructible steel was he - Jim "Booee". I hope no one is saying that Hollywood and Walt Disney could be wrong? :D
Faiaoga
 
I pronounce it Boo-ee but I hear bow-ee used quite often, too. Same with Missouri. I say Missour-ee but I hear a lot of Missour-ah as well. *shrugs*
 
I've always said Bow-ee.
Boo-ee reminded me, too, of the floating thing in the water lol.
However, I won't say that I'm saying it right.
It's just how I always pronounced it and heard others pronounce it.
 
I say it both ways depending on who I am talking to, but I was taught by hillbillies that Boo-wee is the proper way when I was growing up. It's always said with sincere reverence.
 
The Compound Eye said:
It seems as though here in Southern California most of the people I encounter say Bow-ee.
It's the way I've grown up saying it.
That being said, I have encountered some people here who are adamant that the correct and true pronunciation is Boo-ee.
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You are obviously hanging with a bunch of unwashed immigrants from Ohio. NATIVE Californians know that the man's name is pronounced BOO-EE.
 
:cool: I am a misfit beachcomber who graduated from UC Berkeley, so my personal opinion does not count, but tonight I checked with a contact born and raised in Texas. On the back of a business card, I wrote Bowie TX, Jim Bowie and Bowie knife, then I asked him to pronounce them.

In all cases, he said it was Boo-E and that anyone who says it differently must be a #$*& Yankee and thus not a very nice person. Tomorrow, I will pose the same question to someone from T'nsee.
Faiaoga
 
I've heard it called "dammmmmmm!" Or, "that's a big knife!" I have also heard it called a "huuuntin kniiiifh." When you forget to take it off and go to the city you usually see a woman faint and her husband (I think they call them metrosexuals) yells, HE'S GOT A GUN! Then you get tackled by 4 fellers in ice cream suits.

The only bow I know of has a string on it and it shoots arrows and we say boo when we scare our kids. There is also a big guy named Booo that lives across the holler.
 
Here's the old TV theme song:

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That is Boo-ee[/QUOTE]

I'm a lifelong Texan & have never heard it said differently either. The W usually gets pronounced, so it's "Boo-wee" What is that he has in his hand?
 
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I used to say "bow-ee" but now I say "boo-ee". Most people probably pronounce it "bow-ee" because that's how it's spelled, and that's how David Bowie pronounces his name.

By the way:

Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy (and Davie) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.
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A few years ago AGRussell started a very informative thread on the knife .It might still be there. It was never designed as a fighting knife ! Only a heavy duty camping and hunting knife .He had documentation for this. Most of the knives were made in Europe . A good example of how the myth quickly surpasses the fact !
 
Faiaoga said:
:cool: I am a misfit beachcomber who graduated from UC Berkeley, so my personal opinion does not count, but tonight I checked with a contact born and raised in Texas. On the back of a business card, I wrote Bowie TX, Jim Bowie and Bowie knife, then I asked him to pronounce them.

In all cases, he said it was Boo-E and that anyone who says it differently must be a #$*& Yankee and thus not a very nice person. Tomorrow, I will pose the same question to someone from T'nsee.
Faiaoga
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Boo-ee

Moose
 
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