lawn guyland

/ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/.

Humorous

"Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish."
"Dr. Roth, upon moving his family to Steppingstone Harbor two years earlier, had claimed that there would be hell to pay if Nancy and her little sister Courtney ever picked up the typical Lawn Guyland accent."
"I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach."
"Or, heaven help us, a Lawn Guyland accent—that squawking horror of a dialect that gave the Guyland its nickname!"

A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island.

Questions

How do you pronounce lawn guyland?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/.

What does lawn guyland mean?

A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/.

Where does lawn guyland come from?

How to pronounce lawn guyland

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