The remaining anisotropy can be reduced still further by including Sowton
(Devon)! (But this does not appeared to be paired.)
Richard
--On 03 January 2005 10:40 +0000 Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At first sight these counts of names (from CODEPN) looked suspicious:
>
> Norton 66
> Sutton 57
> Easton 19
> Weston 59
>
>> From these data we are led to deduce that about 40 Astons must
>> originally have been Eastons.
> Sure enough, I found 42 such cases, so there is no anomaly after all.
>
> Are there any other examples where one may predict the frequency of
> occurrence of place-names?
>
> Keith
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