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If flunky and donkey are rhyming, then you’re pronouncing one of them weirdly.

In NY donkey and flunky rhyme perfectly. Here we go again.

Which one do you say weird?

Flunky should rhyme with clunky

Donkey should rhyme with honky

My experience of the people from New York makes me think that both get pronounced with a kind of nasal o, almost like aw?

That's more Pittsburgh to me. In NY, it's more like uh or duh.

Got it. You guys say donkey weird, which also means Den must say donkey like a New Yorker.

Shame. I'm deeeeply ashamed of my faulty English

ah, thank you. that makes more sense. I don't get up to New York very often.

Whaddaya mean, should? In the center of the world, donkey rhymes with flunky. So it's correct. Remember The New Yorker map:

that looks roughly accurate and is mostly my understanding of the U.S. mentality too. (Missing, perhaps, is DC?)

It is squeezed in to the lower left of the map. It is as prominently displayed as it should be.

I never noticed it before

For some reason my favorite part is Utah being in the wrong place

World has changed a lot more than I thought since 1976

Do monkey and flunky rhyme in your part of the hinterland?

Nice try, fed!

Touche

They do rhyme most places, though

I have the sum total of one example of how to say "flunky" so perhaps I'm a little off

See Siggy’s comment

SEEE, SEEEEEE!

I don't know! I'm just going off the single mention by Mr. Meeks (which honestly just sounds like a caricature name to me...)