"A hard road to hoe"

[Ann Burlingham]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> insisting that "Skid Row" for a historic district of Seattle (?and
> Seattle only?) is just *wrong*, however, is just bull-headed
> Originalism.  any number of proper names have changed over time, and
> at some point there's no going back.  i suppose that people who want
> to cling to the original version of the name (if it is indeed that)
> could quaintly use this version only.  but they have no right to try
> to force others to follow them.

Language change is fun. Locally, we have East Koy and Wiscoy Creeks -
I wouldn't see either changed on the grounds of "originalism".

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