Talk:Metaplasm

Clarification

Please elaborate on the differences between prosthesis, epithesis and apragoge; and between clipping, elision, apocope and syncope. -Pgan002 07:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Phonology vs orthography

The article is self-contradictory: it classifies itself as a phonology article, but defines metaplasm as an orthographic phenomenon! The articles about each type of metaplasm are inconsistent: some talk about phonology, others orthography. -Pgan002 07:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Contraction

Does contraction really involve both addition and deletion as the article states? -Pgan002 07:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

English contraction (syncope) involves deletion, but Ancient Greek contraction (synaeresis) changed two syllabic vowels into one long vowel or diphthong. Clarified your other issues too. Erutuon (talk) 18:11, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Still confusing

After some 12 years after the above comments, the article is still confusing. It definies metaplasm as a change of orthography, yet one type of metaplasm - synizesis - is defined in its article as a "sound change without change in writing". The wording "a change in the orthography (and hence phonology)" is also confusing - does it suggest that change in writing preceded change in pronunciation? That may be true for poetry but not for language in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.146.41.16 (talk) 14:59, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Agreed. It's a mess. I'll try to clean up the opening a bit, at least enough to untangle orthography and phonetics/phonology. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 19:29, 26 April 2019 (UTC)