The n from “an” transferring to the other word is always amusing to me and what’s more amusing is that it’s not the only time this has happened (a napron -> an apron)
At one point i thought “enlies” was a word because of how i was hearing the phrase “therein lies the problem.” I was hearing it as “there enlies the problem”.
The n from “an” transferring to the other word is always amusing to me and what’s more amusing is that it’s not the only time this has happened (a napron -> an apron)
At one point i thought “enlies” was a word because of how i was hearing the phrase “therein lies the problem.” I was hearing it as “there enlies the problem”.
Works the other way too. (an otch -> a notch)
I once convinced a co-worker that the opposite was true for napkin, that they were apkins before.
Also told him pockets were pock-ettes and pants used to have giant pocks that hung outside like saddlebags.
That’s surprisingly not that far off, modern pockets evolved from bags tied to belts and the word comes from “poke”, meaning pouch.
an orange
a norange