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Wel, Mai bruvverz biokitteh got himself bited bai a nadder, but heez orl rite naow! poohbear3931 says:

An Ceiling Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Perhaps Mike would also propose that we rescind the great vowel shift, and that we should no longer use the words apron or adder, because they were earlier napron and nadder, and people got a bit confused about the way they related to the indefinite article -- a napron got construed as an apron, etc.

Archive 2007-05-01 David Wharton 2007

Perhaps Mike would also propose that we rescind the great vowel shift, and that we should no longer use the words apron or adder, because they were earlier napron and nadder, and people got a bit confused about the way they related to the indefinite article -- a napron got construed as an apron, etc.

Peevish About Language Pet Peevishness David Wharton 2007

That creature was originally “a nadder”: then the two words took to bandying the poor

A Tangled Tale 2003

'He's deaf and dumb as a nadder, your honor,' remarked the solemn policeman who introduced the silent man.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Misdivision of Words and Syllables -- This defect makes the words an ambassador sound like a nambassador, or an adder like a nadder.

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

In contrast to supposed words that never did exist, are real words that exist through a mistake, such as apron and adder, where the n, which really belongs to the word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly, to belong to the article; thus apron should be napron (Fr. naperon), and adder should be nadder (A. - S. næddre).

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

In contrast to supposed words that never did exist, are real words that exist through a mistake, such as _apron_ and _adder_, where the _n_, which really belongs to the word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly, to belong to the article; thus apron should be napron (Fr. _naperon_), and adder should be nadder (A. - S. _n < ae > ddre_).

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

In the same way, Dent writes, a nadder, a noumpere and a napron became an 'adder,' 'umpire' and

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2010

[12: 03] matociquala: and an adder used to be a nadder.

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