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Re: Musings on Language #2
Originally Posted by factotum
I think he may be referring to the apparent origin of the word being a misspelling of "a napron" -> "an apron", as an instance of a simple mistake becoming a full-blown part of the language?
Correct. A mistake made so much, it became the correct spelling and the old one was dropped. This happened in English, after the word had transferred from French.
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