The Anglish Moot
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Nadder/Adder[]

If I'm not mistaken, 'nædder' is one of those words where folks misheard whether the 'n' was the last letter of the indefinite article or first of the noun, which is called 'metanalysis.' By spell, "an apron" over against "a napron;" or "another" over against "a nother." My fraign (question) is this: since the word 'adder' is already in the English tung, do we need to eke (add) 'nadder?' Isn't the todayish word 'adder' nimworthy (acceptable)?

Gr8asb8 20:08, March 27, 2011

Ya, adder is iwis nimworthy, though given that in now-time english adder means viper, it would not be fully unneedful to at-eke nadder to our wordstock, giving us a word for serpent even though we do already have snake--To-coming otheredoneness 01:16, March 28, 2011 (UTC)-

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