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I believe the intrusive n in reinyartnation is a totally unnecessary holdover from reintarntion.
How does reintarnation have any more n's than the original reincarnation? Isn't it therefore a holdover from reincarnation, however totally unnecessary it may be?
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yart = yet another rehashed topic or, it may have been posted on this site in some form
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It's from the n in tarnation, a stereotypical hillbilly expletive. In fact the usage often includes the word in as in "Whut in tarnation brung yew here?" There's no reason to keep that n in reinyartation.
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It's from the n in tarnation
But the same n is in reincarnation!
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the point there is that the 'n' is in the roots: carne, tarn but not in yart. qed
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And if the same story gets told again, is it a reinyarnation?
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is this where chopped liver comes in? or is it mincemeat now?
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chopped liver ... or ... mincemeat...?
I prefer pâté, myself.
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