Re: YAEPT: "restaurant" et sim

Henrik Theiling skrev:
 > Hi!
 >
 > Roger Mills writes:
 >> ... Family pronunciation: occasional ['&mbli@ns] after my
 >> sister's childhood speech :-))).
 >
 > Ah! I love metathesis. And it *is* much easier to
 > pronounce.
 >
 > (Cmp. 'nucular', that's just the other way around. :-))

On the subject of children's pronunciation, I read once that
the Tok Pisin word _abus_ 'animal' is a childish
pronunciation of _animals_. Creaolist Peter Mühlhäusler
realized this when his daughter used just that
pronunciation.

BTW my son at 8 y-o still and in spite of correction uses
the folk etymology _datnummer_ for _datum_ 'date'. While
_nummer_ 'number' kind of makes sense _dat-_ seems to be an
empty morph in this context. The /tn/ doesn't look like an
easy thing to pronounce either.

In my Romance conlang R3 I have -dr-/-tr- > -rr- not only as
a generalization from _quadraginta > quarranta_ (_quarrante_
in R3) but also because I had just that as a kid,
e.g. _batteri > barri_ [batt@'ri:] > [ba'tri:] > [bar'ri:].

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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot

                                 (Max Weinreich)

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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot

                                 (Max Weinreich)

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