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Thread #157424   Message #3715539
Posted By: GUEST,padgett
09-Jun-15 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: pronunciation of RIO
Subject: RE: Origins: pronunciation of RIO
O right, fight tight, sight is eye (I)

so Rye o is English not Ree ~ O which is Spanish American not

English pronunciation and sailors of the time from England may have

chosen to pronounced as they wanted to depending on the shanty rhyme,

or not

Ray yep from Yorkshire not Yorksheer