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    Dan R Porter is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    hmmm

    Here is one I am guilty of, I hear lots of names here in Missouri pronounced "Muh" as in MuhGurk, Muhk Giver, and I also mispronounce it with an "i", wwhy this is I never realized it until this thread, I say "Mick Gurk, and 'Mick Naughton" wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
    wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?
    Ummmm, yes!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
    Here is one I am guilty of, I hear lots of names here in Missouri pronounced "Muh" as in MuhGurk, Muhk Giver, and I also mispronounce it with an "i", wwhy this is I never realized it until this thread, I say "Mick Gurk, and 'Mick Naughton" wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?
    Yes!

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    So...

    Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
    Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?
    Yes! And MC Hammer is actually MackHammer.
    DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
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    Quote Originally Posted by DWFII View Post
    Yes! And MC Hammer is actually MackHammer.
    and mc hammer is just ...Stanley Kirk Burrell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
    Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?
    if its mcdonalds the food chain then its Mick-donalds but for the surname it can be both Mick-donald and Mack-donald

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