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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
14-Dec-07 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: howjasay- phonetic pronunciation w/sound
Subject: RE: BS: howjasay- phonetic pronunciation w/sound

'bow'gle, in Oxford English Dictionary and in Webster's Intercollegiate Dictionary.
boogeyman is a corruption of bogeyman (a rather late word; in print 1890s and usu. bogy in UK).