Long
Island
Standard
Standard
New York
Long
Island
L
aw
n
Guy
land
L
o
ng
Island
Hard G
Other parts of the country pronounce a word
like "singer" as "seeeng-er," with a softer "g". But in the
New York dialect, it's "SING-er." That pronounced "g"
is a vestige of Yiddish and Italian.
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