• Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    … You might be right. He has a weird accent, and if he pronounced the ‘a’ like an American and swallowed the ‘gg’ …

    Or maybe that’s the secret do defeating the Conservatives? “We can totally make an LNG pipeline to the coast, but … err … that would make you all pretty gay.”

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      2 days ago

      Re-watching it, and yeah, has to be gagged. If you listen closely, there’s a small “click” after what at first sounds like “gay”, which is likely an “ed” sound.

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        15 hours ago

        No… Not at all. “gae” Vs “gahgged”. Gay has a hard A, gagged had a soft A. Plus gagged had a ‘gg’ sound in the middle, and also a D sound at the end. Actually, the only thing they have in common is starting with a G.

        Do they sound the same to you?

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          11 hours ago

          I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Everyone I know says “gaygged”. Must be a regional thing or something.

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      It reminds me of my teacher from northern Wisconsin that would say words like “bag” and “flag” as “bayg” and “flayg”. She would say “back” and “flack” like you’d expect but for some reason “-ag” words got the different vowel