Did you know aprons used to be called “naprons” until the 17th century? Back then people would say “a napron” then got lazy and changed it to “an apron”. Linguistically this is a process called rebracketing. It’s like when I was a kid, I had the nickname “Alf” after the fuzzy tv alien. Then there was a kid at school, Matthew Nemec who had a stutter and would call me “B-b-b-b-alf.” Then everyone started calling me Balf instead, and along the way this changed to Belf, and derivates of this such as Belfa and Belvedere and Belfman1980.
Just buy the napron already. Features the amazing photography of Will Nash, and lots of little Belfs.
Did you know aprons used to be called “naprons” until the 17th century? Back then people would say “a napron” then got lazy and changed it to “an apron”. Linguistically this is a process called rebracketing. It’s like when I was a kid, I had the nickname “Alf” after the fuzzy tv alien. Then there was a kid at school, Matthew Nemec who had a stutter and would call me “B-b-b-b-alf.” Then everyone started calling me Balf instead, and along the way this changed to Belf, and derivates of this such as Belfa and Belvedere and Belfman1980.
Just buy the napron already. Features the amazing photography of Will Nash, and lots of little Belfs.
