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Epenthesis--I like that, Vinny. Like in a-thuh-leet. Then "mis-CHEE-vee-us" is an epenthetic pronunciation error? But...om...Shilgia, svarabhakti is not mentioned in either my Webster's or my Dictionary of Advanced Asanas, so I remain in avidya.

#108 - the Gerald Ford shwa is also epenthetic, and is heard quite often in Australian speech. The reverse is just elision, isn't it?

I have a better example for stormboy, although I still don't have a name for it. Listen to Elvis Presley singing Don't Be Cruel. He doesn't say "Don't be cru-ell" (hardly any Americans do, I venture to say); he says "Don't be Crool." The same thing happens with jewel. Not only in "Jewelry" but also in "Jewel"itself. Jewels becomes homophonous with (English) Jules. So "jewelry" becomes joolry, which with an unsurprising epenthetic, anaptyctic, or svarabhakti vowel to ease the transition from the l to the r, becomes jool@ry.

#112 was crossposted with #111.

I guess elision will do. It seems sort of pale and wan next to epenthesis, svarabhakti, and anaptyxis, though.

#111 Mischeevious must come from association with all the other adjectives in -ious: previous, obvious, etc. Like nucular from molecular and vehicular.

Why don't you go and take your excrescence to the YC branch?

Excrescences are welcome in this meandering thread, but this last page must look bewildering to an innocent passer by, thoughtlessly stepping in.

Here, have some wine with that anaptyxis, Vinny!

#111 -- As little as I know of Australian, it seems to me that the extra vowel (something going too much towards an "ee" to be called a schwa) is contained in the "know" part of "known". Australians' "o" and "know" border on "no-ee". Would you agree?

Istvan was attempting a pun, shilgia.

Hm, perhaps my answer looked too serious to show I understood that. Sorry.
Try it on GS: "OP, take this excre**() to YC!"

It's alright, shilgia. I figured that someone like you, who knows so much about languages, would get my attempt to joke. Hence I didn't take your reply too seriously.

(Hangs head in shame.)