Continong

English Proper noun 1 en colloquial humorous "The Continent," mispronounced in the manner of a foreigner. en w:William Edward Norris The Dancer in Yellow D. Appleton and Company 1896 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=-iQNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 She broke into a snatch of a burlesque ditty which used to be popular a good many years ago—"'The Continong, the Continong, oh, I am for the Continong!' And a good job, too! If I were to stay in England, you would be running off to meet me somewhere or other every ten days or so, and the cat would very likely be let out of the bag." en There and Back with a Card Punch, or The London Charivari CXIII London Published at the Office, 85, Fleet Street, and sold by all booksellers. 1897. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld.,printers, London and Tonbridge. 31 July 1897 41 https://archive.org/details/punch112a113lemouoft/punch112a113lemouoft/page/n422/mode/1up 1 May we be among those future “guets” whom this hotel is to “a commodate.” To culinary connoisseurs there are just two places on the Continong that may rival each other in a reputation for cuisine, 2007 The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman 270 Our fine gentleman was off to catch the boat train to the Continong. Well, gentlemen, that’s about all we can do here. It’s a bad business, but straightforward enough. One of these Italian vendetta things, as likely as not. en Neil Washbourne Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Sexual and National Difference in the High-Speed, Popular Surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's Double Acts, 1929–1936 Helen Davies; Sarah Ilott Palgrave Macmillan 2018 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7hmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130 10.1007/978-3-319-90506-8 978-3-319-90505-1 2018951917 Likewise, in "The Continong" ("the Continent" as they imagine it to be pronounced by a Frenchman) Wigan is contrasted, this time more defensively, with the delights, foods, and smells of abroad. Further reading The Continent en Europe