M&D p. 21 How do YOU pronounce 'Bodine'..?

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"Bow-dean", sez one very tenuously reliable source, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bodine

Which would also make sense given the French origin.


> On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Rhymes with Yoyodyne.......
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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