Talk:jejune
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Varlaam in topic Woody Allen usage
Woody Allen usage[edit]
In his film Love and Death, Allen uses his incorrect faux-French pronunciation /ʒəˈʒuːn/ then immediately says "I am one of the most /ʒuːn/ people I know."
That is clearly the joke, and therefore there is a strong implication that the first use was in fact correct, and he was simply using a rare word -- correctly pronounced -- for its comic effect. So /ʒəˈʒuːn/ has been taken as correct in good faith by many viewers for three decades.
Varlaam 19:30, 7 August 2011 (UTC) (who saw Love and Death on its original release)