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Back east, we called them chaps, with the ch sound as in chair, or child. Out here, they are universally pronounced shaps. I heard it first from a couple of saddle makers, but the more I interface with all the horse folks here, they all say shaps. | ||
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Age Quod Agis |
They are chaps in the Florida horse community, and I heard it pronounced chaps in North Carolina as well. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Chaps. The dictionary lists both pronunciations as correct. The SH makes sense, considering it's derived from the Spanish "chaparreras" (as in designed to protect you from the "chaparrel" brush), but I've never heard it pronounced that way. When in doubt, just call them "assless pants".  | |||
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Info Guru |
Definitely chaps here in the TN/KY/GA/NC/FL horse community as well. Never heard it pronounced with a sh sound. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Well, I've been to 57 states so far, I think I've got one more to go, and I have never heard the "shaps" pronunciation. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Comic Relief |
^^^ Ditto. <Insert Sean Connery meme here> or would that be "shapsh"? | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
If you're Ralph Lauren, or ride a Harley, it's chaps with the "ch" like chair. If you're a cowboy, it's chaps with the soft "sh" sound. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
cheeks | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
sheeks? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Info Guru |
That 'soft "sh"' sounds like it came straight off of Brokeback Mountain!!  “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Definitely CH around here | |||
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| Member |
With a shh sound. Then out west the cowboys wear chinks, But that is not a racist word. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
They call them "shaps" at the saddle shop here in Jerkwater, but they know what you mean if you say "chaps". I always say "assless shaps". They always say they're all assless. | |||
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Funny Man |
If you live near a crick full of trout it's shaps, for normal people it's chaps. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| Free radical scavenger  |
They are CH-aps in Texas. | |||
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| Legalize the Constitution |
In DFW--no doubt. How about in Kingsville or Dalhart? _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Caribou gorn |
Pronounce it any way you want just don't step in that horse chit. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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| Free radical scavenger |
Yep, I'm a North Texan in Washington with chaps, but no horse to ride.  | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Maybe a southwestern thing or a Spanglish thing. Kind of like calling a chain a "shain" -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| Not really from Vienna |
Jerkwater is in the heart of the Big Bend, and as Texas as they come. | |||
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