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The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

Note 43 — Chapter V

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Apart from assimilation, there is a tendency in English to substitute -m for -n, e.g. grogram for grogran (see p. 68). In the family name Hansom, for Hanson, we have dissimilation of n (see p. 57).

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