Pronounce it however you choose, my friends... but the town's official name is "Cut and Shoot" according to their very own website. That's how they chose to officially incorporate (by local election) back in 1969, although the name itself dates back to around 1912.Jabberwonky wrote:Just more proof on the Conspiracy of Jealousy from the rest of the lesser states against the Great State of Texas. I bet that map was made above the Mason/Dixon line... Whar's muh boots an' mah shootin' ahrn?Hansontoons wrote:That would be the correct pronunciation. But look for it on maps and you see Cut and Shoot.
(Sorry, that doesn't show very well in-line - the full image is visible if you open it in a separate browser tab/window, or look at the town's home page I linked to above.)
As to those thinly-veiled slurs against us damnyankees... why, I recall hearing that there was a terrible conjunction drought taking place in Texas back a century or so ago, and Texas was sent several freightcar loads full of lightly-used conjunctions collected by school children and church social groups up in New York and Massachusetts.
There's every chance that the "and" in "Cut and Shoot" was first spoken by a teacher or minister in Boston, carefully collected and gently packed by a Yankee child, and sent down to Texas to alleviate the effects of the grammar drought.
I wonder if that little girl would think her "and" has been treated with proper respect?