oh worldly wise ones, please define,
i'm almost certain you will know,
'cus even after all this time,
still unsure 'bout saying CAPO
KAYPO?
KAPPO?
KARPO?
I dunno
is it just a case of you say tomato and i say tomayto???????????
just bored really lol
I used to pronounce it KAPPO but after hearing many an experienced correct me, I now pronounce it KAYPO
Jim
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KAYPO baby.
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I say, "please hand me that string clampy thing".
Depends on which one you mean.
Capo - the string clampy thing - is KAY-po
Capo - as in D.C. al fine (da capo al fine, or "the head to the end") is KAH-po (and the whole shebang is da KAH-po al FEE-nay)
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kaaaaypo is the guitar clamp thingy.
cahhpo is a crime boss.
they both tighten strings around your neck.
kaaaaypo is the guitar clamp thingy.
cahhpo is a crime boss.
they both tighten strings around your neck.
:lol: :lol:
Jim
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
I used to pronounce it KAPPO but after hearing many an experienced correct me, I now pronounce it KAYPO
Jim
See, I think the "correct" pronunciation most people use is wrong! "Capo" comes from the Italian, "capotasto", and I'm pretty sure that "capo" is not pronounced "kaypo" in Italian. Nobody would call a head gangster "Da Kaypo Di Tutti Kaypo"! (At least not to his face!)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/capotasto
Anyway, I say "kappo", because that seems the most faithful to the origins of the word, rather than a colloquial mispronunciation that has become standard.
Isaac
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kaaaaypo is the guitar clamp thingy.
cahhpo is a crime boss.
they both tighten strings around your neck.
:lol: :lol:
Jim
Hey Vinny, hand me dat kaypo ova der. We gonna make dis suka talk!
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See, I think the "correct" pronunciation most people use is wrong! "Capo" comes from the Italian, "capotasto", and I'm pretty sure that "capo" is not pronounced "kaypo" in Italian. Nobody would call a head gangster "Da Kaypo Di Tutti Kaypo"! (At least not to his face!)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/capotasto
Anyway, I say "kappo", because that seems the most faithful to the origins of the word, rather than a colloquial mispronunciation that has become standard.
Isaac
Right etymology, but still the wrong pronunciation. Here's an online dictionary listing of the two. If you use the full name, it's kah-poh-tah-stow, but the short version has always been kay-po fro the device.
But we still use the "right" pronunciation of capo when it means "head". Go figure :)
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I'll stick to the original, latin pronunciation, thanks.
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I say Kaypo (po pronounced as in Edgar Allen Poe), but sometimes I just call it a guitar clamp.
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Seein' as how I'm from Nashville, Tennessee, I'm sure however I say it is wrong. A true southern pronunciation of it can't actually be translated to written text. It would be Kay-po, but the Kay part would be 2 syllables. Something like "Kuaay-po". It would be used in a sentence like "Fetch me that there kuaay-po, I'm fixin' to play this here git-fiddle."
Actually, I just say kaypo.
good take on "some" southerners dialect jwmartin
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