[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, dylan at dylan.me.uk stipulated:
> Pip is partly right in that a certain section of the populus got the 
> idea that the pronounced 'h' was wrong and dropped it from all words. 
> When the fad fizzled out, hotel got an 'h' which it previously didn't 
> have.

It's interesting to hear of a way to prepend letters to words *other*
than reanalysis of `an example' -> `a nexample' and vice versa.

(not that this ever happened to the word `example', but you know what I
mean.)

(and, of course, when I say `words' I really mean `stems'; of course you
can prepend letters to words in many languages by inflecting them, but
that's not the across-time stem mutation I'm gibbering about here...)

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