In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country wassimplified to Kao-li高麗 (Korea).
2021 October 6, “Network News: Lords hear fares and ticketing are key areas for improvement”, inRAIL, number941, page22:
Quizzed onsimplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want tosimplify them".
2006, Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt, Karen Oslund, editors,The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context[2], Lexington Books,→ISBN, page126:
Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended tosimplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
