Spelling errors as a reflection of non-standard speech

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:06 PM -0700 7/23/04, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Isn't nonstandard "chimbley" relevant here?
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>JL

and besides these more dramatic cases (chimbley, humble, chambre)
involving a stop between nasal and liquid, there are the subtler ones
in /m+s/, e.g. the widely attested "hampster"

larry

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>Geoff Nathan <an6993 at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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>At 01:13 PM 7/23/2004, you wrote:
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>Isn't this a relatively common
>source of sound change?  Two examples
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>that come to mind are "humble" (< Lat. humilis) and Gk.
>"andro-" (as
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>in "androgyny", "android", etc.) from earlier Gk.
>"aner" ('male
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>human').  And I'm pretty sure the -b- in Span. "hombre" is
>the same
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>sort of interpolated stop (Lat. homo, hominis, orig. from the same
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>"humus" root as "humble").
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>Not only is it a common source of sound change, but in fact
>the same etymon underwent the same change in French, leading to chamBre
>'room', which, of course, is what CAMERA originally meant.  Wheels
>within wheels...
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>Geoff
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