Date:    Sat, 28 Feb 1998 08:09:31 -0800
<br>From:    Peter Farruggio  pfarr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Brooklynese
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<br>I'm Brooklyn born and raised (until adulthood), and have made about ten
<br>trips back since the early 1970's...my sense of the typical pronunciation
<br>of "Gordie" (including myself in unguarded moments) would be GAWdee
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<br>to whomever, are you sure you heard (or remember) the Goidy accurately?  It
<br>sounds like a stereotype of the famous "toity" for thirty, which I do
<br>remember as being fairly common among older and less educated folks:
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<br> More still: my late uncle from Brooklyn always referred to his son, Gordie,
<br> as "Goidy." Odd, it rhymed with "toidy," and I never heard him say "terlet."
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