Dinged-up

Bill Lemay blemay0 at MCHSI.COM
Thu Sep 15 12:07:57 UTC 2005


Heard on NPR this morning: A reporter described a bus as "dinged-up",
pronounced to rhyme with "hinged" (forgive me, I don't know standard phonetic
representation).  I wonder if it was a slip of the tongue, or if some people
use <dinjed-up> to mean the same as <din-jee> (messy or dirty)?  I've only
heard of "dinged-up", meaning to have many small dents.

Bill Le May



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