Proper Pronunciation of Paedobaptist

Proper way to pronounce Paedobaptist

  • Pay-doh

    Votes: 25 67.6%
  • Pee-doh

    Votes: 9 24.3%
  • Smeg-mah

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Total voters
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MLCOPE2

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How do you properly pronounce the word Paedobaptist (ism, etc.). I always say Pee-doh and I know others who say Pay-doh. So which is it?

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As a side note, don't resopond "No... It's pronounced Cree-doh" :lol:
 
I haven't ever heard "Pee-doh"... do you mean "Peh-doh?"

Or maybe "Play-doh" if you're emergent!
 
Pee, which rhymes with tree? Peh rhymes with, um, hmmm.... the Canadian "Eh?"
 
Not a native English speaker here. But I have repeatedly heard from American Reformed and Baptist pastors/theologians alike pronounce it as "pay-doh" instead of "pee-doh."
 
Not a native English speaker here. But I have repeatedly heard from American Reformed and Baptist pastors/theologians alike pronounce it as "pay-doh" instead of "pee-doh."

Hmmm??? For some reason I can't thank you!? You have no thanks button. Well... Thank you for this useful post. :)

---------- Post added at 05:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

Not a native English speaker here. But I have repeatedly heard from American Reformed and Baptist pastors/theologians alike pronounce it as "pay-doh" instead of "pee-doh."

Hmmm??? For some reason I can't thank you!? You have no thanks button. Well... Thank you for this useful post. :)

Neither does Rich??? Now I'm really confused...
 
Not a native English speaker here. But I have repeatedly heard from American Reformed and Baptist pastors/theologians alike pronounce it as "pay-doh" instead of "pee-doh."

Hmmm??? For some reason I can't thank you!? You have no thanks button. Well... Thank you for this useful post. :)

---------- Post added at 05:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

Not a native English speaker here. But I have repeatedly heard from American Reformed and Baptist pastors/theologians alike pronounce it as "pay-doh" instead of "pee-doh."

Hmmm??? For some reason I can't thank you!? You have no thanks button. Well... Thank you for this useful post. :)

Neither does Rich??? Now I'm really confused...

But I DOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 my thanks button!!!!
 
I don't have it anymore though....

I think we may have entered "The Twilight Zone".

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Other:

bib-li-kuhl bap-tist

:p

If you are going to pronounce its antonyms, you should make your own thread. :lol:

I'm going to use my lack of a thanks option to pad my posts and say to you "Thank you for this useful post!"

What a way to cope!
 
I don't have it anymore though....

I think we may have entered "The Twilight Zone".

---------- Post added at 05:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:58 PM ----------

Other:

bib-li-kuhl bap-tist

:p

If you are going to pronounce its antonyms, you should make your own thread. :lol:

I'm going to use my lack of a thanks option to pad my posts and say to you "Thank you for this useful post!"

What a way to cope!

Alas! The problem is fixed and I can no longer pad my posts. :lol:
 
Brit. /pidbaptst/, U.S. /pdobæptst/, /pdobæbtst/, /pidobæptst/, /pidobæbtst/ [< PAEDO- comb. form + BAPTIST n., after PAEDOBAPTISM n. Compare post-classical Latin paedobaptista (16th cent.).]

A person who practises or advocates infant baptism; spec. (usu. with capital initial) a person who belongs to a Christian denomination which adheres to infant baptism (cf. ANABAPTIST n., BAPTIST n. 3).

1651 R. BAXTER Plain Script. Proof 173 He might have called us Anti~pædobaptists, as being against Infant-Baptism. 1680 W. ALLEN Persuasive to Peace & Unity 70 The Pædobaptists are as much for water-Baptism as the Anabaptists are, and hold themselves as firmly engaged by their Infant-Baptism, as they do by their after-Baptism. 1755 JOHNSON Dict. Eng. Lang., Pedobaptist, one that holds or practises infant baptism. 1772 in W. Urwick Nonconf. Worcester (1897) 215 Ye Paedo~baptist Congregation is of late years much reduced. 1845 R. W. HAMILTON Pop. Educ. viii. 190 The Congregationalist and the Anti-paedobaptist Denominations. 1891 F. W. NEWMAN Life J. H. Newman 62 The only part which I took was, to support Union with Pædo-Baptists, not to divide. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 60 88 ‘Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven’ is quoted by Baptists to show that infants do not need to be baptized; it is quoted by Paedo-Baptists to justify the baptism of children. 1997 G. A. WILLS Democratic Relig. vi. 89 Alien immersion meant that even the immersion of believers by pedobaptist ministers was no baptism because pedobaptists erred about baptism.
 
Not meant to hijack but this is the same for credobaptism. How is that pronounced? Cree-doh or Crae-doh?
 
Visual aid time. Both rhyme with :D

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Technically, if we're going to be true to the linguistic roots, if it's spelled "pedobaptist," it's pronounced pay-doh; and if it's spelled "paedobaptist," it's pronounced pie-doh (i.e. pah-eh-doh really fast). I always pronounce it the former way even though I use the latter spelling, however.
 
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