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Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 553
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2013 - 09:02 pm: | 
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I am probably one of the last on the OME site to find out how Caille is pronounced. I've heard it pronounced 'Kay', Kaylee, Kayl, and Kallie. This is the first time I have seen the pronunciation appear in a publication of the period (MotorBoat, August 25th, 1914). So, is 'Kall' the commonly accepted pronunciation?
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Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 539
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2013 - 09:57 pm: |
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No, it is pronounced kail or cail not kall. this is how I was informed the first time I said it wrong.
it does look like Cailly. Or I have been saying it wrong for many years |
J.B. Castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 772
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2013 - 06:26 am: |
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When I first got into the hobby an old timer that got me started had two boats, he said one had a Nadler, the other had a "Kelly". When I saw the motor it was a Caille. Most people around here call it a "Caillee", but in their ads they have "pronounced Cail" at the bottom. |
bill loveland
Member
Username: bill_loveland
Post Number: 18
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2013 - 01:08 pm: |
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The factory literature I've seen says "pronounced Cail"
And I've met and talked with descendants of the Caille brothers. It definitely rhymes with pail, tail, fail, mail.... |
Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 554
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 11:45 pm: |
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'Cail' sounds good to me. Thanks. |
Jim Parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 62
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 - 06:54 am: |
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I once saw an ad that read "Caille rhymes with Gail" |
