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I stumbled across the word 'epenthesis' today, and found it wonderfully descriptive of my 4-year old's speech patterns.
Epenthesis is defined by M-W as "the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word (as \&\ in \'a-th&-"lEt\ athlete)"
it would stand to reason that there'd be a term for the opposite phenomenon, such as Wens-day or - one of my pet peeves - 'Jewl-ry' (i won't even *mention* my annoyance at the further bastardization of jewelry, as in "jewlery"; i guess that'd be an epenthesis compounding the whatever-it-is-that-means-the-opposite-of-epenthesis... and come to think of it, is there a word for overuse of hyphenization? and please don't just say "annoying" )
bridget=)
Ipsa scientia potestas est ~Bacon
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Epenthesis' antonym Anonymous 01/19/01 08:09 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym Max Quordlepleen 01/19/01 08:18 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym tsuwm 01/19/01 09:23 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym jmh 01/20/01 11:40 AM Re: Epenthesis' antonym tsuwm 01/20/01 02:11 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym jmh 01/20/01 07:26 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym tsuwm 01/21/01 02:35 AM Re: Epenthesis' antonym jmh 01/21/01 03:29 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym Anonymous 01/21/01 04:50 PM Re: Epenthesis' antonym Jazzoctopus 01/21/01 07:02 PM Allergies? TEd Remington 01/22/01 12:25 AM
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