How do you pronounce..............

[Bob Wright]

I was listening to the Carter Family's rendition of "Heaven's Radio" and it brought back a memory from 'waaaaay back in my memory banks.

How do you pronounce the word "radio?"

Like most modern folks now, I always pronounced it as a three syllable word: "rad-i-o."

Noe for the first ten years of their marriage, my mother and Dad never heard a radio, getting their first after coming to Memphis in 1925. My mother always pronounced the word, as did many older folks of the time, as two syllables: "rad-djoe."

Listening closely, the Carters sort of give it that same pronunciation:

"Get in touch with God,
Turn your rad-djoe on."


Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

 

[Bob Wright]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

I perceive you are not among the senior citizens. I've been in Kentucky, and I know they have a way with words up there. And some of those pronouncistions have drifted down into Tennessee!

Bob Wright

 

[pete44ru]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

+2 - and, I yam a fairly senior (mid-70's) citizen.


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[Poco Oso]

Ray Dee oh here too. (I'm 68, but I'm not in Kentucky. Or is that Kane tucky?) :?

 

[Bob Wright]

Only a Kentuckian will understand this:

A Kentucky State Trooper pulled up behind a parked car on the Blue Grass Parkway. Around the car were potted plants.

"What in the world............?" puzzled the trooper.

"I was told," replied the motorist, "That if I ever broke down, to put flares around my car."


Bob Wright

 

[Poco Oso]

Only a Kentuckian will understand this:

A Kentucky State Trooper pulled up behind a parked car on the Blue Grass Parkway. Around the car were potted plants.

"What in the world............?" puzzled the trooper.

"I was told," replied the motorist, "That if I ever broke down, to put flares around my car."


Bob Wright

Maybe some walled flares?

 

[Rei40c]

3 syllables here.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

I perceive you are not among the senior citizens. I've been in Kentucky, and I know they have a way with words up there. And some of those pronouncistions have drifted down into Tennessee!

Bob Wright

I am indeed a very senior citizen, but I'm not a Kentucky native. I'm originally from Iowa, where everybody "talks like the man on the six o'clock news". I can also spell "pronunciations".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

 

[Bob Wright]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

I perceive you are not among the senior citizens. I've been in Kentucky, and I know they have a way with words up there. And some of those pronouncistions have drifted down into Tennessee!

Bob Wright

I am indeed a very senior citizen, but I'm not a Kentucky native. I'm originally from Iowa, where everybody "talks like the man on the six o'clock news". I can also spell "pronunciations".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

TOUCHE'. I blew it there, didn't I? And what happened to SpellCheck?

Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I always check after SpellCheck.

:wink: :wink: :wink:

 

[Pat-inCO]

And what happened to SpellCheck?

If it's anything like mine, the dummies that put out the files will
periodically slip in some of the European spellings,
and a few just plain out dummy character strings. :roll:

 

[#1rugerman]

Ray-de-oh for me too and I grew up in LA (lower Alabama)

 

[Jimbo357mag]

'Rad-ee-oh' - and I got that straight from Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies.

 

[caryc]

I once had a little step daughter that pronounced it rad-i-wo.

 

[yooper1]

I pronounce it Stair-eee-oh cuz I basically only listen to it in my truck and well, you know, the salesman sold me on the bestest stereo...and not a ray dee oh

 

[toysoldier]

A woman was enrolling students at an inner-city school, and was presented with a form which listed the child as "Le-a".
"Is that pronounced leeah or lay-ah?" she asked.
"It's ladahsa! The dash don't be silent!"

 

[Jimbo357mag]

"It's ladahsa! The dash don't be silent!"

 

[wwb]

Got this from my kid sister, who moved to Nashville (Nayshv'l) many years ago.....

Tennessee state trooper pulled over a beat-up old pickup truck that was driving erratically. It was one of the "hill folk" driving, and he had obviously been taste testing his latest batch of shine.

"Got any ID?" asked the trooper.

" 'Bout what?" came the response.

 

[32magfan]

My favorite State Trooper story:

A KY State Trooper ( I grew up in KY) noticed an old, beat up pickup driving extremely slow. He pulled the old farmer over and asked him as he got up to the window, "You got a governor in this thing?".

The old farmer replied, "No officer. That's pig crap you smell back there!".

Some folks might think this appropriate given current political events in my home state. :mrgreen:

32Magfan

 

[exavid]

As a career electronic technician, ham radio operator, and pilot, 75 years years old I've never heard the word pronounced other than RAY-DEE-OH. It's a common practice when calling a Flight Service Station one addresses them on radio for example by calling "Nome RAY-DEE-OH". Assuming of course you are actually calling the Nome FSS.

 

[Fox Mike]

Ray-de-oh is how I have been saying it since I used to sit and listen to it way back before that 'pitcher in a tube' thingy came along.

 

[Snake45]

Ray-dee-oh.

:mrgreen:

I wasn't aware there was any OTHER way to pronounce it. :?

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

Are y'all talking about "the wireless?" That's three syllables, too.

Rick C

 

[cas6969]

"Rad-djo".... like "idjit" and "indjin".


"Indjin" bugs me that it's somehow turned into "offensive slang", when it's really just a pronunciation of "indian". Are you slighting the radio if call it a "rad-djo"? :roll:

 

[Ale-8(1)]

"Rad-djo".... like "idjit" and "indjin".


"Indjin" bugs me that it's somehow turned into "offensive slang", when it's really just a pronunciation of "indian". Are you slighting the radio if call it a "rad-djo"? :roll:

Nope. Just revealing a regional dialect.

:mrgreen:

 

[Rick Courtright]

"Rad-djo"... Are you slighting the radio if call it a "rad-djo"? :roll:

Hi,

I thought a rad-dgo was one of them newfangled tars with the steel belts and such... like Mitch-ellen makes.

Rick C

 

[blume357]

I say 'ray dee oh'... but I've heard folks say 'Ray Jee Oh'