Re: English Haplology and Degemination

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 54365
Date: 2008-03-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> > > /febri:/. The first stage may actually be <February> >
> > <Febuary> - the latter is a common misspelling.
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> Does *f-r-ebuary exist ?

Raw Google hit counts:

<February> 802,000,000
<Febuary> 2,530,000
<Frebuary> 2,470

(Yesterday I got over 1,100,000,000 hits for 'February', so a lot of
the correct spellings are probably generated by relatively few pieces
of code.)

"Febuary" represents many people's usual pronunciation. I'm not
persuaded that "Frebuary" represents anybody's usual pronunciation.

Richard.