No, it's not your perogative.

From an email conversation with my far flung correspondents last weekend:

It's a degenerate society that forms it laws around local prerogative. - Michigan Mike

Prerogative? You mean perogative, don't you? Like in It's My Perogative:


Bobby Brown - My Prerogative

Actually, they are the same word. Technically Mike is correct, but me and all my friends pronounce it perogative and spell it that way, too. So stick it in your ear all you stupid dictionaries.

From alphaDictionary:
Notes: Today's Good Word is usually (mis)pronounced perogative, as a result of a process called metathesis, whereby the sounds [r] and [ê] switch places with each other. You hear it when words like different, veteran, prescription are pronounced [difernt], [vetern], [perscription], common across the southern US states. The pronunciation of these words, however, does not affect the spelling, so the first syllable in prerogative is always spelled P-R-E.

From Your Dictionary:
Even in dialects where [r] does not always trade places with the preceding vowel (as the Texan pronunciations "differnce," "vetern," etc.), the [r] in this prefix often gets switched.

Gernade, er, grenade is another one I used to screw up.

And, no, I don't have any idea what Mike is talking about, but that's not unusual.

Update August 2015. Problems with the video. This one sounds good, but the video is grainy. This is the same video, better video, put weak sound.

Update February 2017 replaced missing video. This one has weak sound. This one has better sound.