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Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:21:06 -0500
Reply-To:     pete or nancy owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         pete or nancy owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon etymology
Comments: To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
In-Reply-To:  <AIEFIGCNNANNIHLNFBPEIENMOLAA.mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
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If you've ever seen the 1987 Dealer Video on the Vanagon.com site, you would hear the narrator, Chris Economakie pronounce it : "Van-ah-gone"

Pete '87 Westy "Joe's Van"

> So... I have been pronouncing it wrong all these years. I have always said > "van-ah-gone" as in the doctor tells you to open up and say ahhhhh - but if > the last part of the word is wagon, then it would be correctly said > "van-eh-gone" as is most Canadian's favourite word... eh! - I knew there > was a Canadian connection somewhere! :-)


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