Radiator

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jan 19 19:03:05 UTC 2007


My wife, who grew up on the Lower East Side of New York in the late 50s and
60s, reports hearing this pronunciation heavily from people who, like my
maternal grandmother (reported on earlier), were of Russian Jewish ancestry.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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