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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Contraction

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

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)[reply]

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.