Comments on: Unpronounceable WordsAs An Object of Etymology http://blog.oup.com/2006/07/unpronounceable/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Stef http://blog.oup.com/2006/07/unpronounceable/#comment-153524 Stef Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:43:41 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/07/unpronounceable_wordsas_an_object_of_etymology/#comment-153524 This is a very interesting article, although sometimes the phonetic spelling of words may have helped. Also, I think there is a typo somewhere in the following: "the Dutch cognate of niBBle is knibbelen “haggle.” [...]for those make an earlier stage of nap and niPPle partly clear." This is a very interesting article, although sometimes the phonetic spelling of words may have helped.

Also, I think there is a typo somewhere in the following:

“the Dutch cognate of niBBle is knibbelen
“haggle.”

[...]for those make an earlier stage of nap and niPPle partly clear.”

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