In retrospect, two 's's in a syllable with a reduced vowel in

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Posted by blindness on March 17, 2025 at 07:44:08

In Reply to: when did posted by TheHappyBurgermeister on March 16, 2025 at 20:30:13

between, English being English (with historic affinity for dropping final syllables, which is, for instance, how we lost all the person inflections on verbs other than the 3rd singular in the present, "-s") it was bound to happen one day.

I hadn't noticed it before. Now I'm gonna listen for it.

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The brilliance of English is its adaptability and flexibility... Born2BBruin 11:38:02 03/17/25 (3)
- Re: The brilliance of English is its adaptability and flexibility... UCLA78 01:50:57 03/18/25 (0)
- The cobbled English language ej 12:02:59 03/17/25 (1)
  - WTHARTA? * wanabbruin 18:19:51 03/17/25 (0)
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying *nm ej 08:16:08 03/17/25 (7)
- cliff notes version barrya 08:52:17 03/17/25 (6)
  - Examples? *nm ej 09:16:40 03/17/25 (4)
    - Google vowel syncope donutello 10:50:56 03/17/25 (3)
      - That's another set of examples, yes* blindness 15:28:14 03/17/25 (0)
      - I could be wrong, but I don't think that's what he was ej 12:03:54 03/17/25 (1)
        
        Sure, this is from Middle English where shift in stress patterns blindness 15:16:02 03/17/25 (0)
  - thank you* blindness 09:05:25 03/17/25 (0)

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