Quote Originally Posted by Dan Wesson View Post
interesting factoid...

Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. His last name is spoken like Gary.

Therefore it was originally Garymandering. As compared to Jerrymandering.

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/02/el...s-gerrymander/
That was mentioned in detroitsgwenivere's John Oliver video at 3:44.

Apparently someone back in history read a hard G as a soft G and the mistake went viral. I'd bet it started before any audio media existed to make the mistake obvious. That is interesting.