Heard on Judge Joe Brown:

[Mark Mandel]

Possibly a hypercorrection modeled on "FebRuary" vs "Feb[y]uary"?

m a m

On 7/9/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Used by a forty-ish, black, female plaintiff from Chicago:
>
> "Jan_ju_ary" in place of "Jan_u_ary"
>
> I've heard this alternate pronunciation all of my life, so it's
> probably not news to the pros on site, but, WTH?
>
> Used by the thirty-ish, black, female defendant also from Chicago:
>
> "Gangway" in the sense of "the space between two buildings that allows
> access to the rear of one of the buildings."
>
> -Wilson
>
>

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