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To: lyby

Bourgeois Forest Drive in Houston, TX is pronounced “burgess”. No frog or fancy-dan college student is going to tell a Texan how to pronounce a word.


874 posted on 03/09/2019 2:04:35 PM PST by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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To: AZLiberty

In that case it makes sense because Burgess is the English meaning of the word Bourgeois. Some German country had a House of Burgesses I think.


1,048 posted on 03/09/2019 5:27:23 PM PST by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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