Yes, Spuyten Duyvil means spitting devil.
How do most people, especially Canarsie folk, pronounce "Breukelen"? This word is still pretty prevalent, at least among Canarsie folk, since it is the name of one of the housing projects back there. And is the correct Dutch pronunciation (which may not necessarily be the same as the Canarsie folk's) BRUKE-len (BRUKE rhyming with "rebuke") or just BRUCK-len like everybody says "Brooklyn" in English?
a female friend of mine moved into that dump a couple weeks ago....
it's one of three things you'll hear.... it's either Brooklyn (most common, 2 syllables, like how you say the borough name) or "brook-AH-lyn" (3 syllables)... you might hear brook-ah-lyn
e, but that's not common.... most hood cats will do anything to relieve themselves of having to say extra syllables....
^^ case in point, there's this one YT-er I listen to that's from bed stuy.... this is the only nzzzz I know that knocks off a 5 syllable term ("you know what I mean") to a 2 syllable word ("yah mean")....
yah mean?
Edited by B35 via Church, 09 May 2012 - 06:58 PM.