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I learned last night Ned/Nell/Nan are corruptions of "mine Edward, mine Ellen & mine Anne" through a linguistic process called metanalysis
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@LtHeadtrip, a master of linguistics, over here -
metanalysis is intruiging, but i think "corruption" is a pretty harsh term for "language change"
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Currently reading Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" about English & he quickly mentions this.
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