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Hi Bruce,
Aha, now that is one of my favorite language things--"metathesis", or the transposition of phonemes, especially common across vowels and glides etc.
I remember a couple of them from college--but I am not sure all of them are real--over the course of english language development:
bride--> bird --> bride
a napple --> an apple
an apkin --> a napkin
I think we must have made some of these up out of humor---but I know at least one of them is right!
so a nadder --> an adder can go on the list of favorites. Thanks!
Regards,
Bill
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What about
anode -> a node -> an ode ?
(I don't suppose that's a proper example.)
Antenna -> Aunt Enna ?
(No, that's not right!)
anisotopic -> a NISO topic ?
(O.K., that's enough!)