Supreme Court rules: Gerrymandering is pronounced with a hard G
The Supreme Court has spoken — Gerry is pronounced with a hard “G.”
The Marblehead Board of Selectmen received a response to a letter it sent last month to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts taking issue with the pronunciation of the word “gerrymandering.”
Here is the article from the Marblehead Reporter:
Supreme Court rules on “gerrymandering” letter
The original cartoon of the “The Gerry-Mander” depicts the Sixth Congressional District as a strange animal with claws, wings and a dragon-type head, and first appeared in The Boston Gazette.
No we just have to get people actually to pronounce it correctly.