Re: phonology of borrowed words

Arnt Richard Johansen scripsit:

> You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too.
I've been curious for some time how the corruption "You can't have your
cake and eat it too" caught on.  The original and sensible form was
"You can't eat your cake and have [= keep] it too", but for some reason
people got in the habit of saying it the other way around.

But it is a clever parody!

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