Occasionally in books you will see the word "haid," generally spoken by Southern or Western characters. Then, when you hear the word pronounced in movies, it is generally pronouned "hade," rhyming with "shade." That is ludicrous, of course. I have NEVER heard anyone from the South pronounce it like that. That spelling is intended to demonstrate that the diphthong is to be drawn out, like those of us from this area invariably do. Thus it would be pronouned "hay-yid." But never "hade."
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