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| | Language Log: METAL, MEDDLE, METTLE, MEDAL, ETC. |
 | | But I've always wondered why those kids (who did not hear each other's pronunciations) were so consistent in replacing the tap with [t], which is less phonetically similar to the tap than [d] is: both [d] and the tap are voiced, and the [t] is voiceless. |
 | | Google has 1140 hits for on your mettle and 0 hits for on your meddle, so there are no replacements of tt by dd. |
 | | The examples of don't mettle clearly mean the same thing as don't meddle, for instance I don't mettle in such things. |
| itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001819.html (548 words) |
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