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There may be other places, but Minnesota and Wisconsin are the only places I've seen that pronounce it the way they do. Doesn't bother me at all, but it seems like a really odd way to say it. I've often wondered how it came to be that they say bayg.
There may be other places, but Minnesota and Wisconsin are the only places I've seen that pronounce it the way they do. Doesn't bother me at all, but it seems like a really odd way to say it. I've often wondered how it came to be that they say bayg.
Those from the Dakotas and parts of Michigan say it, too.
There may be other places, but Minnesota and Wisconsin are the only places I've seen that pronounce it the way they do. Doesn't bother me at all, but it seems like a really odd way to say it. I've often wondered how it came to be that they say bayg.
I live in central Michigan and I guess you would say we may sound a bit like that too. Its not as pronounced here as it is in parts of Minnesota but Im sure most people from outside the upper midwest would say we do it too.
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ba-ig, or bahyg. But one syllable, and with the short a being like "radical" rather than "bad." It's different from beg, which I pronounce like beh-ig or behyg, having the same sound as bay and bagel (but not bake).
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Both ways.....depends who I'm talking with or what the subject matter is. I don't know why I say both, but I know I do. In MN it's "beg", and I know it's supposed to be "bag". Just moved to OH so I'll have to figure out how they say it out here.
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