tee pee or ti pi...how do you spell it???

pattico_gw

15 years ago

an Indian dwelling....I've always seen it spelled tee pee...that's how it was in the books when I was in school

but now I'm seeing ti pi...which doesn't look at all right to me...

What's your pick?

patti

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cynic

15 years ago

I've always known it as one word, teepee or sometimes hyphenated tee-pee or tepee. Call it "TP", I don't care. I'm feeling flushed.....

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grammahony
15 years ago
teepee for me.
chubby_rat
15 years ago
tee pee....ti pi just looks...well...wrong! LOL!
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carol_in_california
15 years ago
I don't know....it was always tee pee when I was growing up.
Reminds me of a silly joke I heard when I was a kid.....Did you hear about the Native American who drank so much tea he drowned in his Ti Pi?
Well, I hope I haven't offended anyone.
lilliepad
15 years ago
Tipi,Tee Pee,Teepee.According to Wicipedia all are correct.I'm almost 68 years old and have never heard the "Tipi" spelling.I have always spelled and heard it spelled Tee Pee.
mary_c_gw
15 years ago
Um yeah, Carol, that is actually offensive.
glenda_al
15 years ago
Not offensive at all, teepee!
I have an open mind!
User
15 years ago
Lilliepad, DH is Native (Cree), he wasn't offended at all by your joke. :o)

And we've always spelled it teepee.
jemdandy
15 years ago
Dang! I thought that that I lnew, but after reading the comments here, I was not sure. Where I grew up, we used tee pee, but then, no one bothered to find out and many of my adult aquaintences, back then, spelled phonetically. I have seen "tipi", sooo, I looked it up in my dictionary. This is what I found:

te-pee n.[Dakota, tipi, fr. 'ti' to dwell + 'pi' to use for]: An American Indian conical tent usu. consisting of skins and used esp. by the Plains porples.

The spelling, teepee is a word and its description reads:

tee-pee var of TEPEE

From thee data, it would seems that 'tepee' is the most widely accepted, but 'tipi' is fine also when associated with the Native Americans of the plains especially in the Dakatos, and the Dakato tribes. TEEPEE is a variant spelling.
vannie
15 years ago
ti pi would be pronounced like tie pie, not a tee pee at all!!
trinitytx
15 years ago
I thought you were going to tell us a story about your house getting covered in toilet paper! darn!

Trin
scottymam
15 years ago
Vannie, you said what I was thinking! Did you have a parent that taught English???

Ellie
lilliepad
15 years ago
Debby-It wasn't my joke but that's OK! LOL I wasn't offended either.I'm 1/4 "Indian" (hope that doesn't offend anyone).:)
Pooh Bear
15 years ago
Y'all are reminding me of all that tea I drank today
and that water pill I'm supposed to be taking now.
Tomorrow I will be making a lot of tea pee.

Pooh Bear
redcurls
15 years ago
teepee...and TP is TOILET PAPER in our neck of the woods.
saltylime
5 years ago
I do crosswords a lot and it's "teepee"...one word.
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5 years ago
lgmd_gaz
5 years ago
This is a very old thread...and that is a spamer that brought it up today
Janie
5 years ago
I realized that it was an old thread when I saw Pooh Bear's name.
phyllis__mn
5 years ago
..........and vannie.
wildchild2x2
5 years ago
When we studied Indian tribes of North America, back in the dark ages of elementary school when such things were taught as part of American history, tipi was used. If you go to most native American sites today you will still see it in use but tepe, tee pee and tepee are accepted in common use also.

tee pee or ti pi...how do you spell it???

cynic

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