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ID: LSAT-LR-095
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principle
Difficulty level: Easy

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Toponymist: The received derivation of the village's name accounts for an old survey's spelling but not the local pronunciation; mine, from a word for a ford, accounts for the pronunciation but not the spelling. I do not say that mine is established. I say only that it should be printed beside the received one.

Which one of the following principles most helps to justify the toponymist's claim?

AA derivation of a place name should be printed only when it accounts for every piece of surviving evidence, the documentary spellings and the pronunciation alike.

BA derivation need not be better supported than the received one to deserve mention beside it; it is enough that it accounts for evidence the received one leaves unexplained.

CWhere a name's pronunciation and its spellings point to different origins, the pronunciation is the safer guide, a spelling being one surveyor's hearing.

DA received derivation must be withdrawn as soon as a rival accounts for evidence it cannot explain, whatever its standing.

EA scholar need not call a new derivation established, provided the evidence it rests on is fully set out.

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