Hypercorrection?

[Laurence Horn]

>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.

Well, better that than a "jew-ee".

L

>--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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