My shtruggle

WASHINGTON, DC: I have a major apology to deliver here. It is particularly galling to me, and it’s going to get messy.

There’s an oddity of spoken language that I first noticed around the beginning of the George W. Bush adminishtration, pronounced like that. It was as though the new President had issued some secret directive to pronounce str- words as shtr- words, which was particularly odd since, according to the dictionary there is no such thing as a shtr-word.