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Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday, January 13, 2013 19:36:20 Jonathan Jones wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
>>> As to the place structures, I'd find the choice of the irregular ones,
>>> such as "mitre" and "lanme", interesting.
>>
>> Really? Because I just find them annoying. (The irregularity, that is.)
>
> The *source* of the irregularity is what I'd find interesting. The irregularity
> itself is annoying.

I just realized that this part of the question was about place 
structures and not about etymologies.  Apologies.

The source of the irregularity is that there wasn't a lot of concern 
with regularity when words were first coined.  I made several passes 
over several years attempting to find and fix irregularities.  I did 
this on my own, not seeking or needing any approval, since places 
structures were not baselined.  Then, I think in 1997, the 
community/membership voted to baseline place structures and specifically 
said that they no longer wanted me to make changes, even corrections. 
So there have been no such fixes, and none are anticipated.

lojbab
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