shahbaz

[Chris Waigl]

Laurence Horn wrote:

>>Arnold wrote about Malcolm X's surname:
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>>Shabazz.  though you can find it misspelled as Shabbaz.
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>>I think you can find almost any word that has a double letter misspelled by
>>having the doubling applied to some other letter. "I know there's been a
>>double letter in there somewhere... well, that looks OK." I call this
>>phenomenon floating gemination, although of course "gemination" usually
>>refers to phonology, not orthography.
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>One frequent case in point is "assymetry" or "assymetric".  I'm
>always noting in the margins that there's no "ass" in "asymmetry".
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Or "parralel". Maths teachers all over the world lead the charge against
it.

People apparently like to select the first consonant that lends itself
to doubling.

Chris Waigl