Where did Gooty come from?

[Cocoa-Jin]

Ive shared my T interest, especially my pokie interests, with my many Indian students at school(we have a contract to train Indian airline students). When I told them about P. metallica and how they are found near "Gooty" they look at me funny, see the area Im talking about and say,"no, its prenounced Ooty!"

Where did Gooty come from if its actually called Ooty?

 

[Talkenlate04]

It might just be the way they pronounce it. They did come from a town in central southern India called Gooty. At least that was what I understood.

 

[Berta]

It says Gooty on the maps. I was just looking at one the other day, because my boyfriend is in India for work and I was trying to figure out just how ridiculously impossible it was to hope that he might see some metallicas in the wild.

Maybe it's one of those regional accent or pronunciation things - they drop the G?

Dunno...

 

[Drachenjager]

SHHHH silent G...not yo be confused with Soylent green

 

[syndicate]

correct me if im wrong but i dont think these are actually collected in Gooty.mabey in the original description thats what was listed tho.not sure

 

[Cocoa-Jin]

I have students fron New Dehli, Bombay and one other place I think. Anyway, they are both from northern and southern India...most are from Bombay though. They all pronounce it Ooty.

Ive been able to get some good weather info for the area from them if anyone is interested.

Supposedly the "Ooty" area is a sort of a mountain retreat destination.

 

[Stylopidae]

correct me if im wrong but i dont think these are actually collected in Gooty.mabey in the original description thats what was listed tho.not sure

I've read the type specimen for Poecilotheria metallica was actually collected at a train stop near Gooty, India.

Of course, I don't remember where I read this.

 

[animalguyyyy]

A very old thread, but Gooty and Ooty are two distinct places in southern India about 500km apart

 

[The Spider House]

Gooty and Ooty sound like puppets from an 80s children show

 

[animalguyyyy]

Funnily enough for those less travelled, there are worlds that exist outside of the west with different cultures, different language, meanings and pronunciations.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

A very old thread, but Gooty Gootyare two distinct places in southern India about 500km apart

What exactly is a Gooty? and Ooty… couldn’t find much .

What does gooty mean?

Definition of gooty in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of gooty. What does gooty mean? Information and translations of gooty in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

www.definitions.net

 

[The Snark]

Wow. I actually get to employ that degree?! Phylogenetics, Gooti, - recent, pronounced guuthi et al. Present reference, a location in India. Origin, a member of the Dravidian language group which includes Telegu and Tamil languages. One of the primary language groups. Gooty is of Tamil origin in reference to a member of said language group.
See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00868-w