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Old 09-12-2013, 08:02 PM
 
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It's pronounced 'leth-ey' with the 'ey' as in 'hey'.
I was close. I thought lethee
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Old 12-18-2013, 08:44 AM
 
Location: south carolina
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That video is disgusting, racist, and not even funny.
I happen to live in SC and don't find anything disgusting or racist about this video it always seems everytime someone try to do something we always try to find fault, and we need to learn to start lifting one another up and stop trying to pull each other down, and stop please thinking everything is racist i'm sorry i'm so sick of that...
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Old 12-18-2013, 05:01 PM
 
Location: James Island, SC
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Cumbahee = Cumbee
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Old 12-19-2013, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Anderson, South Carolina
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I happen to live in SC and don't find anything disgusting or racist about this video it always seems everytime someone try to do something we always try to find fault, and we need to learn to start lifting one another up and stop trying to pull each other down, and stop please thinking everything is racist i'm sorry i'm so sick of that...
I definitely agree with you! This video isn't racist or disgusting at all. I was just showing how dialects from Kingstree and Charleston are similar. I can talk about Kingstree because it was the place that I grew up. Hey bodybank, I bet the one who responded to me about this video being racist has no idea about the talent that the people from Kingstree and Williamsburg County have despite their circumstances. I know if someone is pointing one finger trying to pull faults, they will eventually have three fingers pointing back to their own faults.
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Old 12-20-2013, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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That is an awesome and accurate website. Pronounce Lancaster as Lan-kaster and locals in that area give you the stink eye and will correct you. I lived in that area and could never catch on.....and I tried. They say, "This is South Carolina, not Pennsylvania." Some get truly offended.
Lankaster but you have to pronounce the second A really quick. Almost Lankster.
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Old 05-03-2014, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC metro
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So how's this one pronounced? Gahagan

Is it GUH HAY GEN?
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Old 05-03-2014, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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The correct pronunciation in French is You-jhay (per a French friend of mine who is a linguist). Most pronounce the street Hugh-jee in Columbia, although some say Hugh-gerand a few say You-jee.
Same as the French would pronounce shi#-faced.....sha-farced...what do they know......LOL

Old saying that once a "foreign" word works itself into a language it should be pronounced in that language: Crepe in English is crape.....not crep....
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Old 05-03-2014, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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That is an awesome and accurate website. Pronounce Lancaster as Lan-kaster and locals in that area give you the stink eye and will correct you. I lived in that area and could never catch on.....and I tried. They say, "This is South Carolina, not Pennsylvania." Some get truly offended.
We always pronounced it Lang Caster on the island.
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Old 05-03-2014, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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So how's this one pronounced? Gahagan

Is it GUH HAY GEN?
Gah Hay Gen is how we always pronouced it.
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