From Shanties from the Seven Seas, by Stan Hugill.
A friend of mine, Mr. T. E. Elwell, a sailing-ship man and now (in 1966) caretaker of the Nautical Museum, Castletown, Isle of Man..... "Sailors,' he wrote, "sang Rye-O,' not Ree-O, for though they knew well it was called 'Ree-O,' that word was not a 'mouth-opener like Rye-O.' Page 94, S.f.t.S.S.
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