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[-] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago

Here's one for you: "an apron" used to be "a napron".

Linguists call this sort of change Rebracketing

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Wait until you find out that a nickname used to be an ickname

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Some of them still are.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Napkin and Napron comes from the same french word, which means " small cloth". The french word comes from the Latin "mappa" which is from where we directly get the word "map".

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Also “a norange” > “an orange” (in Spanish it’s “naranja”)

And it went backwards with napkin. “An apkin” > “a napkin”

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Yes, but no. It was never a norange in english. English directly adopted the word orange from french, so that's the no, but yes, it was the word naranja from spanish, who took it from arab, and arancia from italian, and maybe from the word gold in french, which is "or".

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I’ve never been so delighted to be wrong. Thank you—that’s fascinating.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

100 years we might switch back again...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That’ll always be the dream…

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Unbelievable, I find this kind of thing so fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

As a child I rebracketed two words until I was corrected by spell check as a teen- A stigmatism and an acompilation (complied collection of music or stories).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Me too, that seems like a weirdly specific thing for two people on Lemmy to do.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Rebracketing buddies! 🤜

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also, "an uncle" used to be "a nuncle."

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