CHAT: adger, azure

Adrian Morgan wrote:

> > In hackish slang, we have "adger" (to wreck something as a result
> > of an elementary mistake), which is a minimal pair with "azure".
>
> I've never heard either of those words pronounced (I've never heard of
> 'adger'
From the Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/adger.html):

# adger ['&dZR=] vt.
#
# [UCLA mutant of *nadger*, poss. also from the middle name of an infamous
# *tenured graduate student*] To make a bonehead move with consequences that
# could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort. E.g., "He started
# removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare *dumbass
# attack*.

(I have replaced the Jargon File's pronunciation guide with the IPA equivalent.)

> and I've only seen 'azure' in print), but I've always assumed the
> latter to be stressed on the second syllable?
The MWC10 gives only the pronunciation with stress on the first
syllable; I don't have easy access to the OED.

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