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Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:19:39 2020 No.17009227 [Reply] [Original]

Who else always thought it's pronounced "Yeets" and still mentally pronounces it that way?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:20:55 2020 No.17009235 i'm irish so no

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:22:26 2020 No.17009246 This potatonigga W. B. yeets dem symbols into yo imagination

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:23:17 2020 No.17009254 File: 1.96 MB, 2282x2690, John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Keats >/kiːts/ >Yeats >/jeJts/ What did English mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:23:35 2020 No.17009256 >>17009227 Yeets and Kates

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:49:35 2020 No.17009422 >>17009227 actually it's pronounced 'Kites', but you have to be really angry and proud at the same time

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 11:55:49 2020 No.17009445 >>17009227 He yeeted Crowley down the stairs

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:02:18 2020 No.17009480 >>17009256 Kates!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:03:47 2020 No.17009486 >>17009254 Keats was english, Yeats irish

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:10:44 2020 No.17009531 >>17009227 literally no idea how to pronounce it. also how do u pronounce keats

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:29:04 2020 No.17009647 >>17009227 My mom would play The Cranberries album with Yeat’s Grave on it, so never had that problem

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:30:03 2020 No.17009656 >>17009531 yets kets

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:37:38 2020 No.17009708 >>17009227 I had a girl in my class tell me I looked like young Yeats, but she pronounced it Yeets lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:47:24 2020 No.17009765 no because of the smiths song where he says keats and yeats (unfortunately)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:50:12 2020 No.17009784 >>17009708 what didn't happen then?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:55:49 2020 No.17009818 >>17009765 that's actually where I first learned how Yeats is pronounced

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:58:33 2020 No.17009846 >>17009486 hey moron do you know what language do they speak in Ireland and in England

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 13:38:30 2020 No.17010121 >>17009765 what are the lyrics?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 13:54:00 2020 No.17010249 >>17009227 > he doesn't celebrate The Smiths ngmi

Anonymous Sat Dec 12 13:56:22 2020 No.17010267

>>17009765
And Moz only picked them for the wordplay. i love him bros

>>17010121
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 14:03:41 2020 No.17010334 >>17010121 Google "Smiths Keats Yeats"

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 14:09:51 2020 No.17010377 >>17010267 thanks. they use nice subtle in-line rhymes >Keats meet >Yeats gates >Wilde side

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