Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Reverted etymologies/reply (14)

Any editor could have a differing opinion, and an uninformed one at that. Why use subjective opinons when actual linguistic research has been done? It would be different if the sources themselves didn't agree, or if there were an alternate theory. But that's different from rejecting something because it doesn't seem right, while actual linguists specialising in that very area do think it's right, and thinking that the specialists could have missed some very basic thing.

Anyway, that's off-topic so I'll leave this whole conversation at that.