duke and dook

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:15 PM -0400 9/22/04, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 9/22/04 4:58:32 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:
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>>  homies from Duke University
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>at least in the beginning, when Duke was a southern school, it was pronounced
>[djuk], not [duk].

What of "Dukies", though?  I've heard Dick Vitale refer to Dukies
3,578 times, and it was ['dukiz] each time, but I don't know if
that's a fact about Dick Vitale or about Dukies.

Larry