11 words that started out as spelling mistakes

Mental Floss has a fun article on words that started as spelling mistakes. For example, nicknames were originally called eke names, with the verb eke used here in the sense of "to make longer" or "to provide an addition." Sometime in the 13th century, however, "an eke-name" was mistakenly interpreted as "a neke-name," and the N permanently jumped across from the indefinite article an to the verb eke.

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