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Y’dig

November 27th, 2008 No comments

ydig, is a website dedicated to understanding, knowledge, awareness and enjoyment.

“Dig”, comes from the Irish “tuig” meaning to understand, but it evolved in New York street argot to mean “to become aware of, to understand, to know and to enjoy. (See Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English and the New York Time’s article Humdinger of a Project: Tracing Slang to Ireland.

My brother Mark calls the site, “Why Dig?” but the pronunciation is yuh dig, in the manner a New Yorker would say it.

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