[Opinions] Re: Patty
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=0307496465I 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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Patty  ·  Caroline  ·  12/1/2015, 4:24 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Kinola  ·  12/2/2015, 2:55 PM
Re: Patty  ·  BookEm'Danno  ·  12/2/2015, 1:06 PM
Re: Patty  ·  noel  ·  12/2/2015, 12:58 PM
Re: Patty  ·  blaaaarg  ·  12/2/2015, 12:24 PM
Re: Patty  ·  mirfak  ·  12/2/2015, 9:26 AM
Re: Patty  ·  queenv  ·  12/2/2015, 3:30 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Fiammetta  ·  12/2/2015, 12:25 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Puck  ·  12/1/2015, 7:37 PM
My thoughts as well  ·  Llewella  ·  12/2/2015, 5:26 AM
Re: My thoughts as well  ·  earthnut  ·  12/2/2015, 9:52 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Fiammetta  ·  12/2/2015, 3:06 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Fiammetta  ·  12/2/2015, 3:05 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Caroline  ·  12/2/2015, 1:00 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Aine  ·  12/2/2015, 1:21 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Puck  ·  12/2/2015, 2:10 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Aine  ·  12/2/2015, 2:23 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Puck  ·  12/2/2015, 2:39 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Aine  ·  12/2/2015, 2:40 PM
Re: Patty  ·  queenv  ·  12/2/2015, 2:23 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Gracie  ·  12/1/2015, 7:35 PM
Re: Patty  ·  RoxStar  ·  12/1/2015, 6:39 PM
Re: Patty  ·  Caroline  ·  12/2/2015, 1:02 AM
I was going to say ...  ·  RoxStar  ·  12/2/2015, 6:51 AM
Re: Patty  ·  queenv  ·  12/2/2015, 3:17 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Fiammetta  ·  12/2/2015, 12:27 AM
Re: Patty  ·  queenv  ·  12/2/2015, 3:19 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Fiammetta  ·  12/2/2015, 3:37 AM
Re: Patty  ·  Princess Kenny  ·  12/1/2015, 6:05 PM
Re: Patty  ·  earthnut  ·  12/1/2015, 5:24 PM