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Paul Drye@lemm.ee to Moving to piefed.lemmy.fan/c/weird_news - Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 5 months ago

Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

www.independent.co.uk

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Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

www.independent.co.uk

Paul Drye@lemm.ee to Moving to piefed.lemmy.fan/c/weird_news - Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 5 months ago
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Hybrid animal has even started to develop a pair of horns
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  • nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    How do you pronounce g in geep? I prefer to say it like g in gif myself.

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      I think pronouncing it like the g in goat is appropriate

    • thenextguy@lemmy.world
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      I pronounce it like the J in Jesus.

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        So the farmer can also be called a jeep wrangler?

        • nesc@lemmy.cafe
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          hip, obviously jesus is pronounciated with x. 🙃

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        🤲

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      Wikitionary says “j” like jeep: d͡ʒiːp

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        But in Irish it’s pronounced Guinness

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    From 2014… here’s an update from 2016 with video:

    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/the-return-of-the-geep-two-years-on-199305

    In case the embedded video doesn’t load:

    https://youtu.be/bo2IpSD3ptI

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      “Return of the geep” is one of the best headlines that I’ll ever see.

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      That’s quite an accent on that farmer.

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      My hero!

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    I think it should be called a Shoat

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      It sometimes is, but the word is already taken for “a young pig”!

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        Dammit

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          I was with ya there. Silly language!

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      A truly missed opportunity.

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    2014, wow.

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      Damn, I missed that, sorry – it was making the rounds today and I assumed…

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        That poor thing is probably dead already. 😭

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    He’s a geeper!

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