1995: The Missing T in Tyranny Jun 1, 2020

English has a lot of words where an affix will change the original stem, like conservative-conservatism, dropping the terminal-V, or exclude-exclusion, losing the final-D. Nevertheless, this is not the case with tyrant-tyranny, where apparently the final-T is missing. Actually, that T was added in Old French, probably with association with the participial ending -ant, though of course 'tyrant' isn't one. The original Greek τύραννος (tyrannos) does not have one, and would just be rendered 'tyran' in English.

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