From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63535
Date: 2009-03-01
>And as a prefix: the oft-maligned Mr. Schwartz, e.g.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've often wondered if the aberrant pronunciation of <often> with a
> > > /t/ sprang from Midwestern Germans who learned English from hyper-
> > > corrective schoolmarms.
> >
> > In this case more than likely helped by the fact that the
> > corresponding German word is 'oft'.
>
> English _oft_ is common enough in hymns.
>
> Richard.
>