old wives tells (and others)

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 17, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> James Sledd, "A Canterbury Tell," in _American Speech_ 62 (1987) 185-87, commented on the merger of the vowels in "tale" and "tell," as revealed by student misspellings.
>
As in the first draft of that famous Poe story, "The taletell spelling error"

LH

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