Radiator

[David Bergdahl]

I, too, remember /raed/ and well as /re/ as the first syllable--but I think
in Syracuse in the late 50s I said /'re.di."e.t@/ and was corrected to /'
raed.i."e.tOr/
-db

On 1/13/07, Geoff Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:
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> I'm reaching way back in my memory here, but I seem to recall that folks
> in Toronto in the late fifties/early sixties called the large metal
> object in each room that circulated hot water and warmed the room the
> [raed] (i.e to rhyme with glad[iator]).  'Put it on the [raed]', folks
> would say.  But, like Wilson, I'm going on distant memories, and can't
> document this at all...
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> Geoff
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