teepee for me.

tee pee....ti pi just looks...well...wrong! LOL!

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.

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.

Um yeah, Carol, that is actually offensive.

Not offensive at all, teepee!
I have an open mind!

Lilliepad, DH is Native (Cree), he wasn't offended at all by your joke. :o)

And we've always spelled it teepee.

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.

ti pi would be pronounced like tie pie, not a tee pee at all!!

I thought you were going to tell us a story about your house getting covered in toilet paper! darn!

Trin

Vannie, you said what I was thinking! Did you have a parent that taught English???

Ellie

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).:)

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

teepee...and TP is TOILET PAPER in our neck of the woods.

I do crosswords a lot and it's "teepee"...one word.

This is a very old thread...and that is a spamer that brought it up today

I realized that it was an old thread when I saw Pooh Bear's name.

..........and vannie.

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.