Reanalysis Is Not Just About Loanwords

Holly: I think that's also where you basically reanalyze where the boundary is for the more theme, like hamburger and then went to cheeseburger because it was reanalyzed incorrectly as ham and burger. It happens with fairly nativeized English terms, and it can also happen when acronyms or initialisms get reanalyzed. Holly: There might be some kind of reanalysis where the people didn't speak the native language and figured that the word for creek Yalak was part of the name.