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

[Dave Monroe]

Cf. (e.g.) The ArgenTYNE vs. AgenTEENa.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd take all the audiobooks mentioned as authoritative, the M&D as the
> 18th c./British pronunciation, the AtD/GR as the 20th c./American, but
> will admit I've always, in the wake of Th Beverly Hillbillies (+
> subsequent bands like the local Bodeens or the British Bodines [how do
> they pronounce it?]), pronounced it as boDEEN.  But thanks to
> subsequent commentators for a French Connection I hate to admit I'd
> never even bothered to research myself.  Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:01 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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