An interesting thing I noticed was that on La Tasse de Café from Wednesday, October 26th, the announcer Jim Soileau says that the word for "a scarecrow" is "un jombie" but down here, we say "un zombie" or "un esprit." This also leads me to believe that the woman who called in about the medicine is really saying Dewey's /di-weej/ but is pronouncing it by changing the "du" sound to "di" (like "tu" changes to "ti") and then the "weez" sound is changed to "weej" just like the "z" sound in "zombie" was changed to the "j" sound in "jombie." ...and Marion Marcotte pronounces "di-weej" as "dji-weez" like when "dieu" and "diable" are changed to "djieu" and "djiable." Even Jim Soileau changes the pronunciation of "di" to "dji" during the phone call with the woman, but the woman corrects him. So, based on my findings, I sincerely believe that the name of the medicine he's talking about is "Dewey's."

---Roy---

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