From: tgpedersen
Message: 63536
Date: 2009-03-01
>I think I'll go get a soften-ice.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@> wrote:
> >
> > --- 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.
>
> And as a prefix: the oft-maligned Mr. Schwartz, e.g.