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hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This type of analogy is specifically called series contamination, where items that frequently are pronounced together in a series affect each other. Also happened in proto-Germanic with the ‘n’ in ten, from the ‘n’ in nine (and in the opposite direction of Latin novem and decem; cf. nonus “ninth” to see the original ‘n’).

Also probably at least partially responsible for the common American pronunciation of Wednesday, based on Tuesday.

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