To pronounce February ‘the way it is written’ is not easy. It requires the separate pronunciation of both the r following the Feb- and the r in -ary, with an unstressed vowel in between: /feb-ruu-uh-ri/. By a process called dissimilation, in which one sound identical or very similar to an adjacent sound is replaced by a different sound, the r following Feb- has been replaced by a y sound:/feb-yuu-ri/. This is now the norm, especially in spontaneous speech, and is fast becoming the accepted standard.
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