You say Fah-go I

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You say Fah-go, I say Foh-go? Well, turns out there’s no need to call the whole thing off.

Here at TPM we’ve been following the Kyle “Dusty” Foggo story for six months or more. And all this time I’ve thought the name was pronounced Foh-goh, with a long O like ‘Joe’. But recently I’ve heard people pronouncing it Fah-goh, as though it were the were fog, with a little ‘oh’ tacked on at the end.

Now, I don’t think I based on my own pronunciation on anything more than that was how it occurred to me to pronounce it when I first saw it on paper.

So I thought I could resolve the issue for myself and perhaps do a small public service by looking into it.

I spoke to a friend and sometimes source from the intel world who shares some friends and acquaintances with Foggo. He checked it with them and it turns out it’s Foh-goh, not Fah-goh.

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