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'-ly' is just a very common English morpheme, which also happens to be a TLD. In the age of rapidly expanding domain names, the trend in general has been to fin
by crux 16y ago
'-ly' is just a very common English morpheme, which also happens to be a TLD. In the age of rapidly expanding domain names, the trend in general has been to find common suffixes that will fit within English phonotactics and morphology, to find words that, though they aren't English words, look like they could be without too much trouble. -(i)ous is another example—a word like 'Historious' (historio.us) is not a word, and is more or less only by chance attested in the OED; certainly it's not in the lexicon of any English speaker today. And yet one knows exactly what it would mean if it were a word.
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- StavrosK 16y agoThe problem with -(i)ous is that many people assume it's a latin word and type "historius", omitting the "o". The proper formation would indeed be historious, but what's proper has nothing to do with what people find easy. I have half a mind to just rename the service to historius and use historius.com for it, although my inner grammar Nazi won't let me. Having historious.com (along with historius.com, of course) would be ideal.
- crux 16y agoTo be completely honest, I did originally write the name as historius, and had to double-check that there was an O in there. Latin morphology often competes with English morphology when it comes to naming things.
- StavrosK 16y agoYeah :/ It's not a problem when your name is delicious, but when the word doesn't exist, there's a bit of an issue...