Lido ....

[GucciBear]

I am watching watercolour challenge presented by Fern Britton. I am so disappointed to hear her pronounce "Lido" as "Liedo" and not "Leedo" How are children supposed to learn how to speak properly when adults make such basic errors.

If she's using it as an English word, she has a point. In English if a vowel is followed by a single consonant, followed by a vowel, the first vowel is generally pronounced as its name, eg pike compared to pick.

If she's using it as an Italian word, "leedo" would be correct.

English has absorbed so many words from other languages that it doesn't always follow the rules, and there are words that some people anglicise and others don't. IME, lido is one of those.

I would prounounce as liedo. Didn't know that was wrong

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When I stayed in Venice it was the Lee-do, but the local one here is the Lie-do.

OP I think your wrong?

Its liedo to me.

Liedo here too 🤷🏼‍♀️

I would also pronounce it lie-doh

I've always pronounced it liedo - the dictionary says I'm wrong, but it also advises me to pronounce grass as grarse - and that's just silly.

I'm from Guildford and we always went to the LIEDO

I say lie-do and I swim at one regularly and we all day this

I grew up in Cheltenham and the whole population of that town refer to the lie-doh.

I'm from Guildford and we always went to the LIEDO

Me too!

I don't know anyone who says leedo

Lie do here too

In Gloucestershire it's a Lie-do too!

Also lie-do (the nice one at London Fields)

Isn’t it like Ikea? No matter how many times I see the advert for IK-EA, I always call it I-KEA. The name has been anglicised in exactly the same way as lido

When referring to outdoor swimming pools in the UK, both pronunciations are correct. I forget all the ins and outs of it, but I've seen it discussed in articles about them

@GucciBear

I am watching watercolour challenge presented by Fern Britton. I am so disappointed to hear her pronounce "Lido" as "Liedo" and not "Leedo" How are children supposed to learn how to speak properly when adults make such basic errors.

Err, it is Lie-do where I am!

I'd say leedo but that's because I've only read about them in books and on googling it told me leedo. I don't think we have them in NW England so it'll always be leedo to me

I would call it a lie-do.

You really thought you did something here, didn’t you?

Liedo for me - and I'm old enough to remember when they were common and everyone said Liedo!

@imnottoofussed

I'd say leedo but that's because I've only read about them in books and on googling it told me leedo. I don't think we have them in NW England so it'll always be leedo to me

We don't ,which annoys me immensely ,however I once went to a Lido in Tenerife as a child and I think we pronounced it as Lie Do .