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g as in jeep
I think we're confusing ourselves in two ways. One, y'all can't agree on which g is hard and which is soft, and secondly, there ain' no g in jeep! Next you're going to say p as in dog.
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There's a p in dog... it's just upside-down. 
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Fiberbabe, where have you EVER seen a dog "p" upside down? Jazz, there IS a 'G" in Jeep! The name originated as an acronym, GP, meaning General Purpose, and began being spelled "Jeep," since that seemed more like a word that matched the pronunciation of "GP." Geoff - with a "J" in it
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Well, I _thought_ that the "Fats Waller: 1938" soundbite settled the issue. I heard Floogie-with-a-hard-G-as-in-goose. Apparently that's not unchallengeable. Any other opinions either way?
(To minimize further ambiguity: the hard G sound is meant to be G-as-in-goose, the soft G sound J-as-in-Jeep. )
Btw, so far the results of this highly unscientific inquiry are roughly fifteen floo-J-ies, seven floo-G-ies, and two floo-Z-ies...
[aside: How do I suppress the signature line from these posts? It's a bit redundant, since it appears alongside the message anyway]
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I heard Floogie-with-a-hard-G-as-in-goose. Apparently that's not unchallengeable.
well, I listened again and I think, although it's hard to distinguish on the first and third, the second floogie (first verse) has a definite "gee" (as in gee whiz) sound. if that's a goose I'm a gone gander. [you may take that as a challenge :) ]
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I heard it tooooo many times on the radio (those were the pre-MTV, even pre-TV days!) sang it along with everyone else (sigh - what teens will do to fit in with their peers) ... it's like the g in "gee whiz."
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There's a p in dog... it's just upside-down.
not just up side down, also backwards p d.
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. >>There's a p in dog... it's just upside-down.
. >not just up side down, also backwards p d.
...and silent, too, like the p in swimming...
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W-doc, I just noticed nobody answered your question. I've never tried a signature line--I didn't know what one was, when I signed on. But I imagine you could get rid of it by going to Edit Profile, and deleting it where you put it in.
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not just up side down, also backwards p d.
Depends on which way you upside down it. If you rotate it about the x-axis it upside downs to a b, if you rotate it about the y-axis (in three space representation the y-axis is coming out of the screen, what you would normally think of as the y-axis has been relabeled the z-axis while you weren't looking) *then it comes out as a p.
AnnaS and I were puzzling over this bit of ambiguity when Will Shortz stated his weekly Sunday Weekend Edition puzzle a week ago with the hyphenated eight letter word that turned into another hyphenated eight letter word when you turned two of the letters over.
The answer was ping-pong => ding-dong.
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