[Ads-l] Heard: "dekkid"

[Herb Stahlke]

The Canadian actor Lorne Cardinal, who acted in the Canadian sit-com Corner
Gas, pronounced "decal" as /'dEkl/ on one episode. Merriam Webster on line
lists this as a Canadian pronunciation.

Herb

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Spoken by the Canadian(!) actor, a native of Tronna, Rainbow Sun Francks
> a.k.a. "Dev Clark," on the The Mentalist variant, The Listener:
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> "She was hospitalized for bipolar disorder, over a dekkid ago."
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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