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My six year old daughter is getting the hanging of the spelling and whatnot, but earlier on in her Kindergarten year, words like "driver," to her, started with a J. I had never thought about it, but it absolutely (at least in our NJ dialect) has a J sound, because, as you say, we all talk fucked up (paraphrasing).
Sandhi is an amazing area of study. It's doubly fun in tonal languages: all the confusion of atonal languages with an added layer of shitfuckery.