Timeline for What English words have unique prevocalic forms?
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 6:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/779572212806410240 | ||
| Sep 24, 2016 at 4:20 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | Meshaal | @Azor-Ahai No definitive source per se, but it's mentioned in writingexplained.org/amo and english.stackexchange.com/a/66059/170366. blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/02/am also notes, 'Some older grammar guides state that amongst is typically followed by a word starting with a vowel, but this assertion isn’t supported by the evidence of current English as found in the [Oxford English Corpus].' | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 21:13 | comment | added | John Lawler | It's wrong, anyway. That's not the way amongst works, no matter what somebody may have opined. There is also the differential pronunciation (though not spelling) of the: /ði/ before vowels /ði'oldhæt/, vs /ðə/ before consonants /ðə'bɪghæt/. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 20:42 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I have never heard of the "amongst" thing, do you have a citation for that? | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 20:20 | history | asked | Meshaal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |