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<p>[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 290492, member: 307"]Ben:</p><p><br /></p><p>Who is that saying it in the video? Where is that from? THAT IS EXACTLY what I was hoping for!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT in the interest of fairness... I also got these answers which to me were the essence of my question:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Duh....lon...e(short e as in elephant)...ga (short a) - Jim M</p><p><br /></p><p>doll a nigga - DJ Coins</p><p><br /></p><p>Dah - lon' - e - gah - DGJMSP</p><p><br /></p><p>Duh - lahn-ah - gah - huntsman53</p><p><br /></p><p>Do-long-E-ga - alwayslost</p><p><br /></p><p>all different answers and maybe all dialectally correct. I got several and I think the way that I always pronounced it I probably close enough for me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I won't feel like I am making a HUGE potential gaf the next time I say it to someone at a coin show.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all who took me seriously and a few who didn't. As usual, there was a little something for everyone. I think it was a fairly high-level discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>ah and BTW, clembo... we go tahduh store too, but did you know that there's also a way that native chicagoans pronounce our city too, and it's not how everyone else does. I have heard the whole Hobart-Hobert thing before since I ask these kind of inane questions from time to time. It was a PERFECT illustration of the point of dialect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 290492, member: 307"]Ben: Who is that saying it in the video? Where is that from? THAT IS EXACTLY what I was hoping for!!! BUT in the interest of fairness... I also got these answers which to me were the essence of my question: Duh....lon...e(short e as in elephant)...ga (short a) - Jim M doll a nigga - DJ Coins Dah - lon' - e - gah - DGJMSP Duh - lahn-ah - gah - huntsman53 Do-long-E-ga - alwayslost all different answers and maybe all dialectally correct. I got several and I think the way that I always pronounced it I probably close enough for me. :) I won't feel like I am making a HUGE potential gaf the next time I say it to someone at a coin show. Thanks for all who took me seriously and a few who didn't. As usual, there was a little something for everyone. I think it was a fairly high-level discussion. ah and BTW, clembo... we go tahduh store too, but did you know that there's also a way that native chicagoans pronounce our city too, and it's not how everyone else does. I have heard the whole Hobart-Hobert thing before since I ask these kind of inane questions from time to time. It was a PERFECT illustration of the point of dialect.[/QUOTE]
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