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What is a Yute?

4/12/2018

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Listening to the car radio the other day, I heard the word "yutes." I flashed back to the movie My Cousin Vinny, and the scene where the Southern judge is puzzled by what Joe Pesci's character has said.
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"Oh, sorry, your honor," Vinny replies. "Youths," he says with careful enunciation.

Hmmm, I thought, as the DJ went on about selling "yutes," whatever they were. Youths for sale? That can't be right.

Fortunately, an Aussie slang dictionary soon set me straight. A "yute," I discovered, is actually a "ute," or utility vehicle. A ute looks different from the American SUV, or sports utility vehicle.
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 A ute has a passenger sedan's body, with a tray on back and a stronger chassis to carry a load. Conflicting stories exist about when the first ute was created, but the most colorful says that a farmer's wife from Gippsland wrote to Ford Australia in the early 1930s, asking for a car that could carry her to church on Sunday and pigs to market on Monday. A Ford engineer then modified a 1933 coupe, and the ute was born.

Whatever the true story is, I can definitely say utes have nothing to do with youths for sale. Or Joe Pesci.
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Lillian
4/16/2018 08:01:32 am

My 'yute' was an old pickup truck with a cover on the back ---and I hauled sheep to the market often---fond memories----
You and your daughter are having such fun taking advantage of all the opportunities----enjoy for the rest of us !!

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Rose
4/16/2018 02:03:14 pm

Lillian, you have had such an interesting life! I can definitely picture you driving a ute. Thanks for taking the time to read the blog.

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