The World Series has just started, so let's look at the word "umpire".
In medieval France, a nonper
(literally “not a pair”) was an impartial third party. We
borrowed this as noumpere,
but after about a century, people started to think that “a
noumpere” (an arbitrator in a dispute) was “an oumpere”. The
same n-migration phenomenon happened with “apron” (originally
“napron”). Oumpere gradually morphed into “umpire” and
started being used in sports in the 1700s.
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