Word: raddio
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...Well, let's get at it"-the "it" being a round flaying of the Republican administration. When the crowd booed his first mention of President Hoover, he waved them into silence with, "Don't let's take up the radio time." (He pronounced it "raydio," not "raddio" as he did in 1928.) A sample Smith crack of last week...
...Again, Raddio...
Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
...Governor of New York thanked the Governor of Nebraska, reflected that the "raddio"* is indeed a marvelous thing, and sat down at the Governor of Nebraska's desk...
Thought U. S. purists, now is the time to elect a Proper Pronunciation Commission in this country, to persuade U. S. radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...