Meaning of Lawn Guyland | Babel Free

Definitions

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

humorous, nonstandard

Examples

“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!”

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