Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction) [Really?]

> John Cowan eskrë: »
> > What's really weird are the Latinized abbreviations
> > for the English counties:  Salop for Shropshire, e.g.
James Campbell wrote:
> Oh, sure, pick the weirdest one from the box <g>. Actually, "Salop"
> has allus puzzled me, mainly because it just looks so... daft.
The Normans broke up the cluster and (as in various other names, notably
*cester) changed /S/ to /s/; but how /r/ became /l/ is beyond me.


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