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From: "Frances Ross"
> Scottish: I pronounce it Pally-oh as in tally-oh, not ho. I don't think I
have
> ever heard it called pay-lee-oh.
The "lee" part is written that way just to emphasize the long -e sound, not
to indicate any stress on the syllable. You could write it PA'-ly-oh. A
couple- of-hundred-million-plus Americans have never heard it any other way.
:-)
Theola