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Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm' @real.lemmy.fan Paul Drye @lemm.ee 5 days ago

Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

www.independent.co.uk Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

Hybrid animal has even started to develop a pair of horns

Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

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How do you pronounce g in geep? I prefer to say it like g in gif myself.
- I think pronouncing it like the g in goat is appropriate
- I pronounce it like the J in Jesus.
  
  So the farmer can also be called a jeep wrangler?
  
  🤲
- Wikitionary says "j" like jeep: d͡ʒiːp
  
  But in Irish it's pronounced Guinness
From 2014... here's an update from 2016 with video:

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/the-return-of-the-geep-two-years-on-199305

In case the embedded video doesn't load:

https://youtu.be/bo2IpSD3ptI
- "Return of the geep" is one of the best headlines that I'll ever see.
- That's quite an accent on that farmer.
- My hero!
I think it should be called a Shoat
- It sometimes is, but the word is already taken for "a young pig"!
  
  Dammit
- A truly missed opportunity.
2014, wow.
- Damn, I missed that, sorry -- it was making the rounds today and I assumed....
  
  That poor thing is probably dead already. 😭
He's a geeper!

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