There needs to be a word for what wainwrights do. "Wheel-making" seems like a definition and not the kind of word you'd end up with from the era where there were chandlers who made candles and coopers who made casks. Making barrels or casks is referred to as "coopering". So does that mean wainwrighting, the gerund form, is the correct noun for what wainwrights do? Honestly it seems like that would have been a good time for an irregular noun form. Someone should have consulted me via time travel so the language would sound good to my ear hundreds of years after it mattered in regular life.
Of course, now that I look it up... wainwrights built wagons. Wheelwrights made wheels, but looking up wheelwright suggests wainwright is an alternate variance. Wainwright is synonymous with cartwright. hmm.
*pauses* o FREAKISH! I'd always thought it was "playwrite" not "playwright", though honestly that makes more sense with less redundancy. I'd wondered why we have "authors" and not "bookwrites", or, I suppose, bookwrights. I'd been laughing to myself about bookwrites who write books, akin to the woodchuck tongue-twister.
I have completely digressed, but the tangent was brain stretching.
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Date: 2009-08-14 07:51 pm (UTC)There needs to be a word for what wainwrights do. "Wheel-making" seems like a definition and not the kind of word you'd end up with from the era where there were chandlers who made candles and coopers who made casks. Making barrels or casks is referred to as "coopering". So does that mean wainwrighting, the gerund form, is the correct noun for what wainwrights do? Honestly it seems like that would have been a good time for an irregular noun form. Someone should have consulted me via time travel so the language would sound good to my ear hundreds of years after it mattered in regular life.
Of course, now that I look it up... wainwrights built wagons. Wheelwrights made wheels, but looking up wheelwright suggests wainwright is an alternate variance. Wainwright is synonymous with cartwright. hmm.
*pauses* o FREAKISH! I'd always thought it was "playwrite" not "playwright", though honestly that makes more sense with less redundancy. I'd wondered why we have "authors" and not "bookwrites", or, I suppose, bookwrights. I'd been laughing to myself about bookwrites who write books, akin to the woodchuck tongue-twister.
I have completely digressed, but the tangent was brain stretching.