Kay-toe / Cat-oh SOLVED !!!

Hey Folks -

The mystery has been solved !!!

I wrote to the Cato Institute via its little web-page "contact-us-box" as follows:


My experience and my dictionary pronounces "Cato" as
"Kay-toe." Recently an NPR voice continually pronounces
it "Cat-oh."

For years I have used the former pronunciation. Is the
latter correct? If so, has it always been this way,
or is this a new development?

Thank you for helping with this.


I received two prompt replies, one of which is below and clears up the mystery:


Hi Tom,

You've been pronouncing it correctly! NPR often
mentions a group affiliated with the Catto family that
sponsors NPR. They're not related to us, but we end up
getting a lot of questions about it.

Thanks for writing,

Jacob


I hope someone out there besides me found this interesting. If not, I'll be back to my grouchy, wild self very soon!!

- Uke Man