Now I shall play Pompous Ass to an Insufferable Bore:
bk, in his notes, stated:
Just what IS that weirdly placed “r” doing in February? It just sits there like so much fish, doesn’t it? I mean, you don’t pronounce it, you don’t acknowledge it,
Well, kind sir, maybe you Valley Kids don't pronounce the "R', but some of us linguistic elites do!
Webster (Noah not Daniel) states:
Dissimilation may occur when a word contains two identical or closely related sounds, resulting in the change or loss of one of them. This happens regularly in February, which is more often pronounced \'fe-b(y)&-"wer-e\ than \'fe-br&-"wer-e\, though all of these variants are in frequent use and widely accepted. The \y\ heard from many speakers is not an intrusion but rather a common pronunciation of the vowel u after a consonant, as in January and annual.
So there!!!!!
der Brucer