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Re: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin)

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2000, 23:00
Paul Bennett wrote:

> FWIW, I often catch myself saying "Canadia" [*] (stress pattern the same as > 'Canadian', ie /k@'neIdi"j@/) instead of "Canada" (/'k&n@d@/). Oddly, I'm > almost universally understood (by Brits) when I do so. > > [*] I'm guessing the pattern is after hibernia, ruritania and arcadia, > unless anyone has a better idea?
Yeah, that's a good theory. I think a lot of people still conceive of "Canada", "America", and other such Latin-derived words as having endings, for purposes of derivation at least. So, the stem for "Canada" is "Canad-", "America" "Americ-", etc. With that reanalysis of the morpheme boundary, it then becomes only logical to use "-ian" as a suffix to make the proper noun into an adjective. ====================================== Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================