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I say q-pon because my mom said it that way. I never thought it had anything to do with the letter q though. Maybe it's the glide-vs-no-glide thing which happens with a long u such as:
Toos-day/Tyoos-day (Tuesday) Du-tee/Dyoo-tee (Duty) Stoo-pid/Styoo-pid (stupid) Nooz/Nyooz (news) Lood/Lyood (lewd)
...except that the glide-no-glide usage follows some sort of East/West side of the Atlantic pattern, and this doesn't seem to. Now I have a question about this: it can happen with long u after N, D, T, L... Has anyone else seen this split with any other word following a K sound (a hard c or a k)? I can't think of any. (It doesn't have to be at the start, necessarily.) Fr'example, does anyone say jocular as jok-oo-lar or do we all say jok-yoo-lar?
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Koopon, q-pon
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modestgoddess
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10/25/02 03:11 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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10/25/02 03:21 PM
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FishonaBike
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10/25/02 03:24 PM
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boronia
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10/25/02 03:40 PM
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FishonaBike
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10/25/02 03:52 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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10/25/02 04:13 PM
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Faldage
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10/25/02 04:45 PM
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modestgoddess
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10/27/02 02:36 AM
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COOTIE, COOTIE let's play COOTIE
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BankrollBets
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10/27/02 05:16 AM
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FishonaBike
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10/27/02 01:41 PM
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Faldage
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10/25/02 03:45 PM
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That one made me cry!
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musick
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10/25/02 05:47 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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10/25/02 05:50 PM
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Faldage
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10/25/02 06:17 PM
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Sparteye
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10/28/02 03:23 PM
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10/28/02 03:38 PM
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Sparteye
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Sparteye
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10/29/02 01:23 AM
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