Peter,

I may be the guilty person who coined the term, "tripoint"

or "tri-point." When I wrote my book, "Tri-State Corners in

the United States," I was looking for an eye-catcher to use

as the header on each page, and finally came up with a

stylized form of, "tri-point", repeated four times across

the top of each text page. Very possibly it has been used

earlier by others but that is my explanation of its origin.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hering [mailto:hering@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:11 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] tripoints versus triple points

Dear Boundary pointers,

I'm in the process of reading a very interesting

book on "Boundary-making...a handbook for

statesmen, treaty editors and boundary commissioners".

by Stephen B. Jones, assoc. professor of geography...

this book being published in 1945, is interesting in

many ways, also in regard to the language used...!!

The word "tripoint" isn't mentioned at all, instead the

terms "triple points" and "trijunction points" are used..

SO, my question to those of you having English/American

as first language...!

Is "tripoint" a modern word... born in the US or GB??

all the best...

Peter H.

PS: Jesper, Hans Peter (another Danish border freak)

and I just returned from our mini expedition to the

DeDk border... a very nice trip that brought us to all

16 crossing points (railway and road) and some other

interesting places at the border, for example a German

cottage 10 meters from the actual boundaryline, where

a boundary marker was placed in the owner's back-

yard - a remote place full of cats (35 !) - that's why we

called him the "catman" ... a full report will be submitted later...
maybe AFTER the GEEBE that takes quite a lot of my time...

Pete

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