Date:  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:01:13 PDT
From:  barbara harris <GRADMA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject: Re: SCRATCH THAT LAST MESSAGE

Presumably the "traditional" pronunciation /baed/ is not all that old; the
<e> on the end would indicate a preceding long vowel, something like [a:].
The current /beyd/ pronunciation must be a sort of spelling pronunciation
resulting from the school rule that a final <e> "makes a letter say its
name." (!)