Heard on The Judges: relevant > revelant

[Wilson Gray]

Mid-twenty-ish black female speaker:

"I don't think that that's _revelant_, your honor."


I wouldn't have bothered with this one, except that, till I was in my
late twenties, I likewise used the pronunciation, "(ir)revelant," for
"(ir)relevant." Finally, a classmate was kind enough to point this out
to me.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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