fruneral

[Jonathan Lighter]

Does anyone know how authentic the Gecko's current accent really is?

  If the guy who voices him *isn't* really a native, blue-collar Londoner, shouldn't he get some sort of dialect award?

  JL

Nancy Hall <nhall at ESSEX.AC.UK> wrote:
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Has anyone heard the pronunciation "fruneral" for "funeral"?

There are websites where the word is consistently spelled this way (e.g.
http://blog.myspace.com/17375928).

One blogger describes this pronunciation as British: "His language is
full of colourful British expressions. He says 'Fruneral' instead of
Funeral and 'Birfday' instead of Birthday"
(http://www.jade-leaves.com/Ceit/ela/ela1_2.PDF). Another internet
chatter implies it is AAVE: "I think boots is one of the coloreds. I
wonder if he says 'scrawberry', 'credik' and 'fruneral' too?"

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