Heard on Judge Joe Brown:
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Tue Jul 10 18:56:56 UTC 2007
>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"
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It suggests to me an Hispanic influence. One often hears "ju" for "you" in
the speech of ESL
speakers whose first language is some dialect of Spanish.
AM
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