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Blagofuckinjevich

By The Daily Dish
Dec 17 2008, 7:15 AM ET

There is some scholarly dispute about how best to pronounce this:

Blagofuckinjevich? The insert almost invariably goes before the stressed syllable - the exceptions are, to my knowledge, all after a prefix, such as unfuckingbelievable - and so, surely, this is wrong. Especially since the governor's name is pronounced much more closely to blagoy-evich than blago-yevich. Just try saying that out loud: Blagofuckinjevich. Now say Blafuckingojevich. The first one turns into that pseudo-Swedish prosody. The second one allows you to hit the "goy" with satisfactory savagery.

I believe Professor Pullum has erred.

Indeed.



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