Date:  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:42:37 -0600
From:  charles fritz juengling <cjuengling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]STCLOUDSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: whole nuther ballgame

>Re
>
. This kind of reanalysis is legion,
>both in this direction (an ewt --> a newt) and especially in the opposite (an
>orange, an umpire, an apron: all from stems with historical initial n-).

add 'nickname' from 'an ekename' to the list.

The SED also turned up 'nants' for 'ants' and 'nangnail' for 'hangnail.' The
progression must have been  a hangnail> an angnail (with usual loss of
[h]) > a nangnail.

Fritz Juengling

Fritz Juengling
Foreign Languages and Literature Department
St. Cloud State University
St. cloud, Minnesota