Showing posts with label phonetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phonetics. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Aks the aminals about pasghetti

Neat thing I learned this week:

"Bird" and "first" used to be "brid" and "frist" in Old English. So the switching of sounds within a word (called metathesis if you must know) eventually solidified, changing the standard of English we use today.