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orange is the same: “a norange -> an orange”, hence “una naranja” in Spanish.
Rebracketing is the standard linguistics term for this phenomenon, in case anyone’s curious.
Similar thing with “a nickname”, which came from “an ekename”.
an a.k.a name
So nickname is a nickname for an ekename, gotcha.
Similar: ‘Nuncle’ came from ‘mine uncle’.
I’m getting Tumblr folk etymology vibes from this.
Check out the YouTube channel “Rob Words”, as he covered this. It was news to me too!
So should we short it down to pron?