Timeline for What is the name for the transformation of "good on you" to "onya"?
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| Oct 15, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | Lambie | Good on you. [good] onya where you become ya. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 17:39 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 28, 2021 at 0:56 | comment | added | John | It's East London UK slang for good on you. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1413603901836759045 | ||
| Jul 9, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | John Lawler | In the US, the phrase good on you exists, but it's stressed on good and you In Oz, the stressed syllable is on, with good reduced to /gd/ before on, Naturally the initial unpronounceable stops disappear. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 12:07 | comment | added | GArthurBrown | This is a form of apheresis where it is affecting a phrase rather than a word. I'm uncertain whether it has a name or not. But it's why we say "thank you" in place of "I thank you" and the like. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 12:01 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Possibly as near an answer as one will get, possibly a duplicate: Are kinda/sorta/oughta and sposta acceptable in formal writing?. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 8:02 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Certainly it's a shortening; I don't think it's exactly an elision, since the word good is dropped completely rather than elided. You could also call it a corruption - 'the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased.' | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 2:37 | history | asked | Simplex1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |