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yakiv on Dec 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is this a good commit message?

The English word "apron", as I understand it, used to be "napron". "A napron" eventually shifted to "an apron". See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Napron.

xnxn on Dec 7, 2012 [–]

That's funny, the reverse process created the word "nuncle" from "mine uncle". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuncle

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