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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
A friend and me (a friend and I) had a lame argument last night. We were talking about fishing or something and mentioned something about a buoy. He corrected me and said "what? Boo-e? it's "boy"?
Now, I've never heard a buoy pronounced as boy before. I've only ever heard it as "boo-e". I laughed and said no way, that's ridiculous, and made a joke about him just liking boys (I win). He then nerdly went online and started searching. Turns out, we were both right.
Anyways, calling a buoy, a boy, is dumb.
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Where are you from? I think the acceptable west coast pronunciation is BOY or BOY-E. I heard its a derivitive of Buoyant or BOY-ANT and thus BOY or BOY-E for short. Most east coasters pronouce it BOO-E.
I'm off. Going to eat some wings now. He's buying!