Although my wife, the editor, would disagree with me, I can't really bring myself to call a feature of a Germanic language an *error* because some nobs with Latin on the brain figured that they could make a Germanic language play by Latinate rules. Right now, the problem's a matter of a square peg being battered into a round hole for hundreds of years, & no wonder if you find that there are splinters & cracks in both the peg & the pegged.
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