IF WE LOVE LIDOS, AND USE THEM, THEY WILL SURVIVE. THE MONEY YOU SPEND ON YOUR SWIM, OR SLICE OF CAKE, SAFEGUARDS THEIR FUTURES
Tamar Manoukian pool, New Cumnock, Ayrshire
It’s long-accepted wisdom that politics and religion are topics to be avoided in conversation. And as swimmers we have a rat of topics that can almost bring us to blows. Wetsuits versus togs, anyone? Almost as divisive as that is the thorny issue of how to pronounce ‘lido’. Are you in the lee-doh camp, or the lye-doh camp? Or perhaps you are a swimmer who won’t have any truck with such modern nonsense and prefer to pronounce it ‘baths’. Whatever your pronunciation preference, it really doesn’t matter.