Hypercorrection?

[Peter A. McGraw]

Then there's the nugget with what I presume is an idiosyncratic twist, from
another court, this one in Clackamas County, Oregon, where, according to
the jury-pool manager, I served as a "jew-or."

Peter Mc.

--On Friday, May 20, 2005 2:25 PM -0400 sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
wrote:

>  Peter writes:
> ....> referred to the defendant as "the
> dee-fen-DANT."  (Maybe this isn't quite comparable to "employ-ER," since I
> don't know what contrast it would be trying to make clear.)<
>
>>> "She called my emploYER [Employ^r]." I.e. Stress is on the final
>>> syllable. This looks like an overcorrection based on the stress
>>> pattern of "employee," which didn't occur in the course of the
>>> exchange.
>>> --
>>> -Wilson Gray
> ~~~~~~~~~
> Reminiscent, too, of the "realTORS" often heard on the radio (underwiters,
> perhaps? of NPR).
> AM



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