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In reading history of plumbing in the "Thomas Crapper" site, I encountered the word "conduit", meaning a tube through which something flows, or through which an electric wire passes for protection.
I remember being sharply corrected for pronouncing it "cond'wit". I was told to call it "condit". Just now I looked it up, and my dictionary gives first "condoo'it" and "condit" as second.
I'd be interested to see a tabulation of how other members pronounce it.
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two way!
condoo it-- a kind of pipe, used to hold wiring (also knows as greenbar) and BX (metal sheathed electric cable, required by NYC electical code-- most of the rest of the country uses RomX(rome X) unsheathed cables
CON dwit--Specifically Northern and Southern Conduit Avenues (the road real NY's take to and from JFK, while tourist sit in traffic jams on the van Wyck (called both van Wick, and van Wike) named for the conduit under the road.
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con doo it here, but if you say it fast enough, some would say it sounds more like con dwit
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newbie
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"Con doo it" for me. I guess I'm a nit dwit but I've never heard of the other pronunciation. (I con doo it though!)
Robert
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old hand
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Con-due-it will do it for me. Or is my pronunciation just a pipe dream?
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old hand
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I sez "con doo-wit" - running the "doo" and the "wit" together as Angel describes - because I likes the best o' both worlds when I can get it!
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I too currently pronounce it Angel's rapid way.
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