Solecisms # 15 Phonetics and Phonology

Remainding for remaining. I’ve heard pendies for pennies and pandies for panties. The idea here is apparently that we often run -nd- combos into -nn-, so to emphasize the word, we make sure to enunciate the d, but here there is no d, yet they stick one in for emphasis.

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