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How Do You Pronounce Radiator?
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Joseph Nason, who put steam heat in the White House, is the person who came up with the name radiator. I suppose because it radiates. But he was from Boston, so feel free to filter it through his regional accent.Retired and loving it.0
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It’s ray-dee-aytor. You wouldn’t call an RF a “rad-dee-ent” floor. The sun “ray-dee-ates” heat.
For some reason, around the Baltimore- Philly area, they mis-pronounce it with a short A.Bob Boan
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RAY-DEE-AY-TERDanHolohan said:
Joseph Nason, who put steam heat in the White House, is the person who came up with the name radiator. I suppose because it radiates. But he was from Boston, so feel free to filter it through his regional accent.
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RAY-DEE-AY-TERhttps://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/06/radiator.html
Could it be that RAD-iator comes from this accent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
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Yes,ron said:
You can tell the excitement in my statement from the 3 periods at the end.
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