How do YOU pronounce Lido

[Icy Gull]

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

 

[mlg57]

I always called the one at Saltdean the Leedo

 

[Vegas Seagull]

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

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's leedo

 

[El Sid]

Aldi

 

[Super Steve Earle]

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

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]

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

 

[Pogue Mahone]

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]

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

Sounds fair enough to me.

 

[studio150]

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

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.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

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.

Scon.

 

[yxee]

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]

It's always been Lie Doe for me.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

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

 

[fat old seagull]

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

 

[blue'n'white]

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]

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]

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

 

[BigGully]

I always called the one at Saltdean the Leedo

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

 

[mlg57]

Talking about early 60's