What’s the origin of izzle?
What’s the origin of izzle?. Snoop Dizzle: “It’s a way of speaking that’s been around for years. It originated in Northern California.”
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lanceSep 16, 2004 at 11:26AM
weird - just last night i was driving somewhere and heard the noted suffix. "Where on earth did that come from?"
I asked my passenger... we had no idea. We speculated for a bit then gave up. Now, today, i get to work and read that. oy.
wSep 17, 2004 at 8:19AM
This column originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, 12-Sept-2004: link
The linked IHT version of the column differs from the above in two respects.
1) The column on the NY Times site was written by Kathleen E. Miller. "William Safire is on vacation," it notes. The IHT has Safire as the column's author. This appears to be an error
2) The last line of the column is omitted from the IHT version.
Matt BellSep 19, 2004 at 4:43PM
izzle started ova in north carolina im from the stl and snoop said that is were he heard it and he said that it
had been going for a long time and he just brought it ova to the rap game
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