Heard on The Judges: "documentary"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 4 18:42:09 UTC 2008


Twenty-ish, black, female speaker:

"I was hired to film a sort of documentary "DOCK youmin TEH ry" _['dOk
jumin "tEri]_ of the event."


I've always felt that this word should be pronounced "DOCK yumin
terry." At last, I now have support. :-)

-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.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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