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From Wikipedia: Note that juncture loss may have occurred in a different language before a word reached English; for example, orange did not develop in English
by _acme 10y ago
From Wikipedia:
Note that juncture loss may have occurred in a different language before a word reached English; for example, orange did not develop in English from *a norange, but rather the juncture loss occurred in Old French and Anglo-Norman orenge, or possibly in Italian.
- evincarofautumn 10y agoAh, thank you. I had my history mixed up. Still a decent example, though—and curiously it didn’t happen with Spanish naranja.