On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:00:38 GMT, (v) wrote:

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:58:54 GMT, someone wrote:

I mean, isn't that what duck/duct tape is for;

Not really, and you have (perhaps unwittingly) stumbled upon the key.
You can search this on the net very easily (and sure, everything on
the internet is true!).

Depending on who you believe: It was originally DUCK tape for the
material "cotton duck" that military tents were made of. (Whether the
cloth tape was actually used to patch the tents, or was originally
just made from similar material, I don't recall.) Soldiers then found
it was handy for a variety of purposes. Somehow this morphed into
DUCT tape. But a lot of it that is sold, is not so great for actual
ducts!

I believe that story. Originally there were Billy goats and Annie
goats, but gradually an Annie goat became a nanny goat.

And my grandmother from the Pale always often offered me a napple.
She doesn't seemed to have influenced the entire country however.

In these cases the consonant moved to the next word, but it can also
retreat to the previous word.


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