bridle/bridal

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 28, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>
> Parallel to "peddle" for "pedal".

of course.  in Brians:
   http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/pedal.html

and you can hear "peddeling drugs" {three syllables on the first verb)
as well as "pedling by bicycle" (two syllables).  i have no idea what
the social/stylistic distribution of  the variants is.

arnold

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