Some English dialects with /dj/ and /tj/ within a morpheme have gradient amounts of affrication, from [dj] in careful speech to extreme “yod coalescence” approximating [dʒ][…].

Apparently after 806, under the patriarch Nicephorus, Ignatius became sceuophylax of St. Sophia, the second-ranking position in the patriarch's suite, with responsibility for a staff of secretaries and the church's many liturgical vessels, vestments, and books.

I could make nothing of what he said.

Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.