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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

Lots of words have unified origins. They diverge to allow 2 different concepts to be named. Calling someone a cleric still means something different to calling them a clerk.

However, a clerical error could be ambiguous. Likely as the term was less common, and so didn't have enough usage to warrant divergence.

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