m & n

[David Bowie]

From:    Thomas Paikeday thomaspaikeday at SPRINT.CA

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: QUESTION TO PHONETICIANS: Is this something like metathesis as in the
: commonly heard "aks" for "ask" with a vowel thrown in between the
: consonants in question?...

Somewhere along my training as a sociolinguist, i'd been told that the
ask/aks thing can be traced back to competing OE forms ascan/acsan, not
simply to (recent) metathesis. Is this real, or just a bit of linguistic
myth?

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David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
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    house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
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