the pronunciation of "patio"

[Mark Mandel]

> * Pronounced pa′-shi-o.

Do you have any sense of what vowel was meant for the first syllable
-- /a/ or /ae/ or /ey/?

m a m

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> now posted about, with references to a 2000 ADS-L discussion, on my
> blog:
>
> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/the-patio-footnote/

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