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  • pruwyben
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    10 hours ago

    Nobody is allowed to say “eepy” anymore.

    • bricklove@midwest.social
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      8 hours ago

      “Eepy” really bugs me because that’s not how sound change happens in linguistics. It’s very rare to drop the initial consonant of a word let alone a constant cluster. I would expect something more like “sweepy” since swapping L and W sounds is common or “seepy” as the L fades away completely.

      However, I think it would go in the other direction and people would add an initial E sound to make “esleepy”. This phenomenon can be seen in French loan words like estate (state), esquire (squire), escrow (scroll - bonus points for L to W).

      Uhhhh, words are my special interest lol