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Do you say THANKSgiving or thanksGIVING?

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December 01, 2019, 10:06 AM
Keystoner
Do you say THANKSgiving or thanksGIVING?
It's not the second option because the accent wouldn't be on multiple syllables.


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December 01, 2019, 08:28 PM
Dusty78
A good example of how some southerners say it at the 1:18 mark

https://youtu.be/gw-G-TGHoCM


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December 01, 2019, 08:49 PM
amals
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
I say "Thanks-GIV-ing." But I'm a Westerner (born & raised in California), only coming to the South 11 years ago. I never knew there were different stresses on different syllables in Thanksgiving until literally just now.


Me, too. Born and raised St. Louis. Don't know about other parts of Missouri. I think we pronounce a lot of things similar to native Californians of the same era. Also Nebraskans, I believe.