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    1 month 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



  • I’m right-handed when using one handed tools and “left-handed” when using two handed tools like axes and shovels. The hand closer to the tool bit (the left hand in my case) is only there to provide support and slide around as the other hand controls the orientation and motion of the tool.

    I declare my way is truly right-handed while these right-hand-in-front-of-the-left-handers are just ambidextrous pretenders