Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post

While I am in the US, I have alot of connections to France, including citizenship, language, and I'm a general francophile, so I probably say chamois for that reason, too. I actually saw a real chamois in the Alpes about four years ago. It's like a caribou, I guess, but it lives in the mountains and has a big fuzzy rear.
Wow, I had no idea that a chamois was an animal. You learn something new...and all that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamois

Webster has both pronounciations as correct.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chamois