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in reply to a message by Puck
Well Sol Steinmetz, a renowned linguist, cites Peg and Peggy as examples of how language has evolved from baby talk. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0307496465
I have also read other books that have referred to it. I'm going to take his word for it over a journalist on Mental Floss who doesn't cite his sources.
I also wasn't disagreeing with the all of what you said. Just that they didn't randomly decide to replace letters. The replaced letters did stick though because there was a lack of variety in names.
I have also read other books that have referred to it. I'm going to take his word for it over a journalist on Mental Floss who doesn't cite his sources.
I also wasn't disagreeing with the all of what you said. Just that they didn't randomly decide to replace letters. The replaced letters did stick though because there was a lack of variety in names.
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I have read other sources besides that one, it was just one of the many things that came up when I Googled the commonly known trend of letter swapping. Plenty of adults also have speech problems especially noting the standards of education in the middle ages, so, it could have just as easily been a lack of formal education in adults that reshaped the nicknames.
Since none of us were alive in the middle ages, there is no way of knowing whether babies inspired the changes without a contemporary account that states that it was so, but thank you for posting the theory.
Since none of us were alive in the middle ages, there is no way of knowing whether babies inspired the changes without a contemporary account that states that it was so, but thank you for posting the theory.
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Agreed :)
It's interesting regardless how it happened.
It's interesting regardless how it happened.
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