In a message dated 5/26/00 7:55:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, JKrevnov@AOL.COM
writes:

<<
 I've been saying "van-a-gone" but realized yesterday that if it's a
 contraction of vanwagon it might actually be "van-aggin".
  >>

I was just talking to someone about this a few weeks ago - it seems to me
that when it was originally marketed, the name was pronounced va-NAH-gen.
Anyone else remember it that way?  (The person I was talking to didn't.)
-Lauren

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