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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish
I thought the d sound to begin certain words was like the dj in django. My mother denies this but I hear it from her mouth to this day.
Everything was cool until one day after school in 8th grade I was hanging with some bros when I told them I needed to wash my hands because they were djirty. My friends noticed and started laughing at me, I was incredulous.
"Are you trying to tell me it's not Djirty Harry?!?"
In the first paragraph are you saying your mum sometimes pronounces it this way?
What is her heritage? There are some languages in Europe where a "d" softens to "dj" in combination with a following vowel like an "i" or "e"
It's similar to how in English a "C" softens from being pronounced "K" to being pronounced "S" (car, cop but circus, centre) or a G less consistently goes soft (gap, golf but general, giant)