Ministrations are performed by a minister, but administration is performed by an… administrator? How did we get here?

  • Sunspear@piefed.social
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    30 days ago

    Am I dense or are most of the comments missing the point of the question?

    Both minister and administrator are nouns. The question (great question really, I too suspect the english-is-three-languages-in-a-trenchcoat reason) is why the two nouns don’t follow the same pattern when their verb forms match exactly (ministrate, administrate)