Such pronunciations as "Eye-rack" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Mysterious. The media pronuciation I'm familiar with is / dar 'fUr /.  Is it
first-syllable stress that expresses disgust?  And why "disgust"exactly?

JL

"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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