Lawn Guyland

English Etymology A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island. thumb|location map Pronunciation en /ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/ [ˌlɔəŋˈɡɑɪlənd] NYC en NYC Proper noun Lawn Guyland en nonstandard humorous A representation of the local pronunciation of en Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/. en 1941 w:William James Blake The Copperheads 95 Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish. en 2000 T. C. Gardstein Circuit 49 Dr. Roth, upon moving his family to Steppingstone Harbor two years earlier, had claimed that there would be hell to pay if Nancy and her little sister Courtney ever picked up the typical Lawn Guyland accent. en 2010 David Gordon The Serialist: A Novel 327 I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach. en 2016 Andrew Klavan The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ 11 Or, heaven help us, a Lawn Guyland accent—that squawking horror of a dialect that gave the Guyland its nickname!