Listening to the radio this morning I heard yet another occurrence of someone mispronouncing the word “February”. As is often the case, they had dropped the first “r” in favor of a “y”, resulting in “feb-yoo-er-ee”. In fact, I think this may be the more common pronunciation and I, myself, am guilty of this most of the time. Do to the prevalence of this mispronunciation and the fact that its just so much easier for lazy- tongued people like myself to make the “r” for “y” swap, I think someone should start a petition to have the “r” permanently removed from February. Now I know this can be a slippery slope. If we concede to our laziness too much, before long we’ll all be talking about the “noo-kyuh-ler” crisis the world is in. I have the utmost confidence that we can be responsible English speakers. Who’s with me on this?