Subject: Re: tripoints versus triple points<br/>
Date: May 27, 2002 @ 03:04<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2020200296">certainly jack <br/>
whatever the actual priority<br/>
you are an early & a most major depositor of this word <br/>
in the great thought bank in the sky <br/>
from which we are all withdrawing your value daily<br/>
& i am honored to know someone who is so at cause in this matter<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Jack Parsell&quot; &lt;jparsell@n...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Peter,<br/>
&gt; I may be the guilty person who coined the term, &quot;tripoint&quot;<br/>
&gt; or &quot;tri-point.&quot;  When I wrote my book,  &quot;Tri-State Corners in<br/>
&gt; the United States,&quot;  I was looking for an eye-catcher to use<br/>
&gt; as the header on each page, and finally came up with a<br/>
&gt; stylized form of,  &quot;tri-point&quot;, repeated four times across<br/>
&gt; the top of each text page.   Very possibly it has been used<br/>
&gt; earlier by others but that is my explanation of its origin.<br/>
&gt; Jack<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;   -----Original Message-----<br/>
&gt;   From: Peter Hering [mailto:hering@m...]<br/>
&gt;   Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:11 PM<br/>
&gt;   To: BoundaryPoint@e...<br/>
&gt;   Subject: [BoundaryPoint] tripoints versus triple points<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         Dear Boundary pointers,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         I&#39;m in the process of reading a very interesting<br/>
&gt;         book on &quot;Boundary-making...a handbook for<br/>
&gt;         statesmen, treaty editors and boundary commissioners&quot;.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         by Stephen B. Jones, assoc. professor of geography...<br/>
&gt;         this book being published in 1945, is interesting in<br/>
&gt;         many ways, also in regard to the language used...!!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         The word &quot;tripoint&quot; isn&#39;t mentioned at all, instead the<br/>
&gt;         terms &quot;triple points&quot; and &quot;trijunction points&quot; are used..<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         SO, my question to those of you having English/American<br/>
&gt;         as first language...!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         Is &quot;tripoint&quot; a modern word... born in the US or GB??<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         all the best...<br/>
&gt;         Peter H.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         PS: Jesper, Hans Peter (another Danish border freak)<br/>
&gt;         and I just returned from our mini expedition to the<br/>
&gt;         DeDk border... a very nice trip that brought us to all<br/>
&gt;         16 crossing points (railway and road) and some other<br/>
&gt;         interesting places at the border, for example a German<br/>
&gt;         cottage 10 meters from the actual boundaryline, where<br/>
&gt;         a boundary marker was placed in the owner&#39;s back-<br/>
&gt;         yard - a remote place full of cats (35 !) - that&#39;s why we<br/>
&gt;         called him the &quot;catman&quot; ... a full report will be submitted<br/>
later...<br/>
&gt;         maybe AFTER the GEEBE that takes quite a lot of my time...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;         Pete<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
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