Oh, I doubt it. It's a not-at-all-surprising assimilation -- the "r" pulls the whole cluster back and makes the alveolar "s" much more palatal -- that will have been going on since language began. It's just that as the world shrinks, we can hear more and more voices, and once you notice a thing that bugs you (say, because it gets blared on the television every fifteen minutes), you start hearing it everywhere, though you'd previously been unaware it was there all the time. I just wish the Army would set a better example.
Unless the Army setting a bad example is what you meant was becoming more and more prevalent. In which case ... I don't know about that either. ;-)
You've mentioned this before. :-) That's another one that's as old as the hills -- he wouldn't say "dee" if that syllable were emphasized, but take away the stress and the vowel gets reduced to almost nothing. Heh.
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Unless the Army setting a bad example is what you meant was becoming more and more prevalent. In which case ... I don't know about that either. ;-)
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It's "day", Bob, not "dee". So Wednesday is not Wednesdeeee, Thursday is not Thursdeeee, etc.
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It also irks me when people say "Warshington."