23-12-2025, 12:41 AM
(22-12-2025, 10:59 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But what would it take for the words "Ave Maria", of all things, to become corrupted?
Pressure to rhyme the two words, coming from the six marix morix vix? That wouldn't explain the /v/ to /b/ but those two sounds can get conflated, and it might be easier to do so if the obvious connection to "Ave Maria" has already been blurred by ave becoming avia.
