Re: phonology of borrowed words

Josh Brandt-Young scripsit:

> Interestingly, Trask in "Historical Linguistics" gives the source of this as
> a folk etymology of an original "Halve your cake and eat it whole." Where
> did this phrase come from, anyway?
Well, the "can't eat ... and have" form certainly appears as late as _Ulysses_,
though I think you would be hard pressed to find a modern citation.  There
seems nothing too strange about it: it's a proverb of transparent meaning,
once you see that "have" means "keep".

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