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Knight of Wisdom
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Postby Knight of Wisdom » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:40 am
In the 1990's and early 2000's, I've been hearing "DHIIGSHIIL", and then all of a sudden, I started to hear "DHAABSHIIL".
Who calls says either of this names. What does it mean? 
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Kukri
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Postby Kukri » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:45 am
Dhiigshiil is an offence. dahabshiil is the name.
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Executive
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Postby Executive » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:48 am
Dhiigshill was the name back in the days when people considered his pricing and business activities to be unethical.
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Cumar-Labasuul
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Postby Cumar-Labasuul » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:32 pm
The company is called dahabshiil but the owner is called dhiigshiil so people that were upset with the way his business was running, started calling the company dhiigshiil. I think
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snoop12
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Postby snoop12 » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:43 pm
yes my relatives use to call it dhiigshiil back in the day, now they call it dhahabshiil.
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