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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

Another mark of refinement is the resort to the napron, corruptly apron, to protect the dress during the performance of kitchen work.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

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

Nowt even a napron, fit for thy wark as maaid at serviss; an 'parson a gettin' tha plaace at Hall!

Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

Lucrece lacketh both a hood and a napron, and thine own partlets have not yet so much as the first stitch set in them.

Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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

The change from numble pie to umble pie to humble pie, attributed to "some anonymous punster in the time of William the Conqueror," was actually due to the same influences that changed a napron to an apron in the first instance and to the characteristic weakening of the initial h in English, heard today in an historical, an hilarious, etc.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

We could expect such a fastidious foe of provection to need no napron to eat an ewt.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3 1988