Wherefore art thou, aberil?

[eggyk]

Language change is not a coin toss though, these things are regional. If someone says "abril" in an "april" region, they immediately stand out as a speaker of a different dialect.


Since people tended to write (the vernacular) as they spoke, looking for "aberil" may still be informative.

Before widespread education and standardisation, it may have been a coin toss from person to person.

A father may have said "april" and the son or grandson may have said "abril" and as long as everyone understood which word was being said they may not have even noticed the difference. If it was a larger change, like someone saying "Aprilis" instead of "Aberil" it would be noticeable. 

Hopefully youtube links are okay, this is a video from Simon Roper demonstrating these kinds of differences over only 2 generations at a time: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 
(link is timestamped to the part i mean)

Additionally, if someone was a learned, literate person with knowledge of Latin, its entirely plausible that the person would code switch depending on the situation or context. Like in this example, where a german speaker clearly uses both "Apprilis" and "abrel", "Mayus" and "mayen", (as well as jenner/Gornug alongside the latin january and february). 

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