How do YOU pronounce Lido

Icy Gull

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Well?

Most people I know seem to go with the Fido option, I think they are wrong but maybe it's me that has been pronouncing it wrong all these years. Or maybe there isn't a right or wrong?

Anyway Boz Scaggs thinks it's Leedo and although he's American that's good enough for me

 

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mlg57

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I always called the one at Saltdean the Leedo

 

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Vegas Seagull

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It's an Italian word beach as in Lido de Jesolo and they say leedoh

 

Herr Tubthumper

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• #4

It's leedo

 

El Sid

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Aldi

 

Super Steve Earle

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Icy Gull said:

Well?

Most people I know seem to go with the Fido option, I think they are wrong but maybe it's me that has been pronouncing it wrong all these years. Or maybe there isn't a right or wrong?

Anyway Boz Scaggs thinks it's Leedo and although he's American that's good enough for me

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I've always rhymed it with Fido but, now I think about it, I pronounce it the other way for that place in Italy, Lido di Jesolo i.e rhymes with Silk Torpedo - see what I did there?

Suspect it's a word that might swing both ways.

 

Lethargic

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• Oct 3, 2015

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It's always been the Worthing lido as in "lie doe"

 

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Pogue Mahone

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A strange one. I always talk about leedos, generically, but the one over the hill is Saltdean Liedoe. Almost as if the two words aren't connected. I don't know why.

 

Prince Monolulu

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• Oct 3, 2015

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Anyway Boz Scaggs thinks it's Leedo and although he's American that's good enough for me

Sounds fair enough to me.

 

studio150

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• Oct 3, 2015

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Icy Gull said:

Well?

Most people I know seem to go with the Fido option, I think they are wrong but maybe it's me that has been pronouncing it wrong all these years. Or maybe there isn't a right or wrong?

Anyway Boz Scaggs thinks it's Leedo and although he's American that's good enough for me

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In the Boz Scaggs song Lido is a person so probably not relevant on two counts.

Is there a connection between how people say lido and how they also say scone?

For me its lie doh.

 

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Pogue Mahone

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studio150 said:

In the Boz Scaggs song Lido is a person so probably not relevant on two counts.

Is there a connection between how people say lido and how they also say scone?

For me its lie doh.

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Scon.

 

yxee

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Oct 24, 2011

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I've never known how it's said, like "vayse" or "varse", so I just decided "liedoe" as it sounds more English. If the Italians say "lee-do" then good for them.

 

Official Old Man

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Aug 27, 2011

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• Oct 3, 2015

• #13

It's always been Lie Doe for me.

 

Coldeanseagull

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• Oct 3, 2015

• #14

leedo, or liedo...who really cares. Now scone and scon? There's one to get upset over

 

fat old seagull

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Well, according to the knowledgeable Wikiepedia it's LeeDoh. I've always pronounced it Lie Doh. Never too late to learn

 

blue'n'white

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I think in the name of a place such as Lido de Jesolo it's Leedo
But as in a swimming pool it's more common to call it Liedo

 

Bakero

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• Oct 3, 2015

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I've always rhymed it with fido, as have the 3 people I've just asked. According to the four dictionaries I've just checked it rhymes with paedo.

 

Megazone

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• Oct 3, 2015

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Lie doh. Never heard anyone call it a Leedo before.

 

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BigGully

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mlg57 said:

I always called the one at Saltdean the Leedo

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You couldn't of visited much, all the years I went there I cannot recall anyone calling it anything other than ''Lie Doe''

 

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mlg57

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Talking about early 60's