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Linguistics HumorEnglish · 3 months ago

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Linguistics HumorEnglish · 3 months ago

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That can’t be the original name.

Correct, it’s bullshit.

But it’s illustrative of merely contrarian nonsense like Rampisham being “Ransom” or Southwark being “Suthik.”
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  Are you saying contractions are contrarian nonsense?
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    You are bringing some weird takes to a gag thread in a gag community.

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