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Doug
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English
Etymology
en Douglas.
Pronunciation
dŭg
en /dʌɡ/ RP,Southern England,GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Doug.wav Southern England
en /dɐɡ/ AU,NZ
en /dʊɡ/ Northern England
en dug
en ʌɡ 1
Proper noun
en male Douglas.
en 1960 w:Muriel Spark The Ballad of Peckham Rye New Directions Publishing 1999 70 Come and have a drink,' he said, 'and my Christian name is Douglas on this side of the Rye, mind that. Dougal Douglas at Meadows Meade and Douglas Dougal a Willis's, mind. Only a formality for the insurance cards and such.''I better call you Doug, and be done with it.'
en Veronica Stracqualursi Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/georgia-full-state-recount-2020-presidential-race 2020-11-11 The Georgia Republican Party and US Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican who’s leading the Trump campaign’s recount efforts in the state, on Tuesday requested a pre-certification “manual hand recount of every ballot cast within the State of Georgia” for president. https://web.archive.org/web/20210305143919/https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/georgia-full-state-recount-2020-presidential-race/
Derived terms
en Dougie Dougo
Anagrams
en dgou goud