Oh wow I didn't know about the slang.... That's dreadful.
Coyote IS fun. The different ways of saying it just add to the charm. It's so appropriate for a trickster like the coyote. I actually say it both ways, I'm very inconsistent. But I think I might say it with 3 syllables slightly more often. Like when I think of that cartoon coyote, Wile E. Coyote, his name has the long pronunciation. Do some people call him "
Wiley Ky-ote"?? That's fascinating.