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.
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