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Originally Posted by Bruce Parker
Wartime, or any historical, pronunciation can be interesting and not always what it is today.
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And that confuses a lot of people, when they don’t seem to realise pronunciation shifts over time.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Parker
One case in point, our famous (and still surviving) Tribal class destroyer HMCS Haida is now pronounced 'Hi-duh' but apparently throughout her service she was pronounced 'Hey-duh'.
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That one, technically speaking, is
easy enough: /ˈhaɪdə/ — or, in non-IPA English phonetics: HI-duh, like the original pronunciation
