http://wordie.org/words/canoe Comments for the word 'Canoe' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/canoe#comments I wonder why this is pronounced and spelt the way it is? The Haitian, Spanish, and original English was canoa, then English developed various spellings such as cano, canow, canoo. The last of these got established as the pronunciation (too late for the Great Vowel Shift to have caused it); while the anomalous spelling canoe (not from Dutch, which has cano) prevailed. Another such puzzle is <a href="/words/lasso">lasso</a>. <br /> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:26:22 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/canoe#comments http://wordie.org/words/canoe#comments <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonofgroucho/1946094714/">Here's one!</a> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:30:20 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/canoe#comments