Re: THEORY: irregular conlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 1, 1999, 0:14 |
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Don Blaheta wrote:
> but as words pass from "relatively common" to "only sort of
> common", they tend to re-analyse into regular words, anyway.
Like "wrought", originally the past tense of "work", but now a seperate
verb. Presumably, when the regular "worked" was used, some speakers
retained "wrought", but since they were few, people thought it was a
different verb.
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