M&D p. 21 How do YOU pronounce 'Bodine'..?
jochen stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 09:07:10 CST 2015
(rhymes with Friday, another man's obd't sl'v')
2015-01-14 16:01 GMT+01:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:
>
> Pig first appeared in "Low-Lands" in 1960, then featured in V. The rest is
> history, including Fender-Belly Bodine in M&D. .
>
> In the audiobook of M&D, Jonathan Reese reads it as "Bo-dyne." Might he
> have had pronunciation notes via Holt, Melanie Jackson, and an
> authoritative source? But then again, wouldn't P himself bow to the example
> of Jethro Bodine ("Bo-deen") on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)?
>
> FWIW, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bodine/
>
> Hoping to inaugurate a historic schism among the faithful, I remain y'r
> obd't s'v't,
>
> Montay (as I hear increasingly often these Latino-inflected days)
>
>
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