{"id":114,"date":"2009-01-28T22:19:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-01-28T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:19:20","slug":"misdivided-creations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Misdivided creations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I learned that several words in common use are in fact misbegotten coinages, formed by an imperfect split between the article and the noun.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Adder&#8221; came from &#8220;a nadder&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;Newt&#8221; came from &#8220;an ewt&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;Nickname&#8221; came from &#8220;an ekename&#8221; (an &#8220;eke&#8221; name was an &#8220;extra&#8221; name)\n<li>&#8220;Nuncle&#8221; (now obsolete) came from &#8220;mine uncle&#8221; (a respectful address)\n<li>&#8220;for the nonce&#8221; came from &#8220;for then anes&#8221; (obsolete &#8220;the ones&#8221;)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of word is referred to as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Misdivision\">misdivision<\/a>&#8221; or (more technically) an improper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metanalysis\">metanalysis<\/a>&#8220;; actually, there are lots of terms for this error: rebracketing, juncture loss, junctural metanalysis, false splitting, and refactorization, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of language (and how we can change right along with it) never ceases to amaze me.  I&#8217;ll have to keep an eye out for more of these!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I learned that several words in common use are in fact misbegotten coinages, formed by an imperfect split between the article and the noun. &#8220;Adder&#8221; came from &#8220;a nadder&#8221; &#8220;Newt&#8221; came from &#8220;an ewt&#8221; &#8220;Nickname&#8221; came from &#8220;an ekename&#8221; (an &#8220;eke&#8221; name was an &#8220;extra&#8221; name) &#8220;Nuncle&#8221; (now obsolete) came from &#8220;mine uncle&#8221; (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}