Bow-E or Boo-E

[phillipsted]

Ba ba ba oom bow bow ba ba oom bow bow bowie...

TedP

 

[9blades]

Really you guys can stop now.

 

[Ken44]

Same in Georgia.

I say Bow-e and I'm in Georgia.

I'm not sure what part of GA Vortex is in, but I'm with BigBill. I've never heard anyone from GA say anything other than Bow-E.
Until this thread I had no idea some parts of the country said Bouy.
Of course we say alot of words wrong down here, so we may be wrong, but we're too stubborn to change.

 

[jazub]

People in the Old West had so much chaw in their front lips all the time that they couldn't make a hard "B" sound. Therefore, the "B" is silent and the proper old timey way to say it is "Ooooie" knife.


In 2013, Bow-ee.

 

[james terrio]

I pronounce it "clip point".

 

[Samon]

heard it called a 'boo-ee' for the first time a few months back and I laughed! the same laugh that exploded from my mouth when I first heard a carbine called a 'car-bean'!

I guess it's regional, as alot of my US pals have never heard of a 'car-bean' and call the knife a bowie. Alot of bowie knives were made and imported from Sheffield (England) to the rest of the world in the years gone by, and as they still make and call them bowies, I will call them the same!

 

[Stringfellow Hawke]

His Momma named him Boo-wee, I'ma call him Boo-wee.

NJ, If it matters.

 

[EZ Bake]

This has been one of the more informative threads I've read in the gen discussion section in a while.

Thanks everyone for the info! :thumbup:

 

[CWL]

In California, we call that an Assault Weapon.