nadder

• “Wel, Mai bruvverz biokitteh got himself bited bai a nadder, but heez orl rite naow! poohbear3931 says:”

  An Ceiling Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “Perhaps Mike would also propose that we rescind the great vowel shift, and that we should no longer use the words apron or adder, because they were earlier napron and nadder, and people got a bit confused about the way they related to the indefinite article -- a napron got construed as an apron, etc.”

  Peevish About Language Pet Peevishness

• “That creature was originally “a nadder”: then the two words took to bandying the poor”

  A Tangled Tale

• “He's deaf and dumb as a nadder, your honor,' remarked the solemn policeman who introduced the silent man.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

• “Misdivision of Words and Syllables -- This defect makes the words an ambassador sound like a nambassador, or an adder like a nadder.”

  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference

• “In contrast to supposed words that never did exist, are real words that exist through a mistake, such as apron and adder, where the n, which really belongs to the word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly, to belong to the article; thus apron should be napron (Fr. naperon), and adder should be nadder (A. - S. næddre).”

  Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"

• “In contrast to supposed words that never did exist, are real words that exist through a mistake, such as _apron_ and _adder_, where the _n_, which really belongs to the word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly, to belong to the article; thus apron should be napron (Fr. _naperon_), and adder should be nadder (A. - S. _n < ae > ddre_).”

  Literary Blunders

• “In the same way, Dent writes, a nadder, a noumpere and a napron became an 'adder,' 'umpire' and”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “[12: 03] matociquala: and an adder used to be a nadder.”

  "But there's no blood! It's just lymph!"

• “Examples are an umpire < a nompere; an adder < a nadder; an apron < a napron (compare napery); and an orange < a narancia (compare Spanish naranja).”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3

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