# The state of common names

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-state-of-common-names/39118>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 5, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-state-of-common-names/39118 "2023-02-05T05:06:03Z")\
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> [@lawnranger](#):
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> Names ‘transferred’ out of a ‘bad’ lexicon into a ‘good’ one will still have the original creation date. New copies of existing common names are re-created on the output taxa as part of taxon changes, there are about 1000 of these names created during January.

Saw weird things happening, this might be a good explanation.

> [@lawnranger](#):
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> Messy, yes! Don’t think there are any duplicates, should be a straightforward combination.

I do not think so, check this table, some occurs 4 times: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/34](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/34)

> [@DianaStuder](#):
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> From my ignorance I cannot pick up other African languages, but most are from Europe (and cosmopolitan English ((French and Spanish too?)) is everywhere, ‘Esperanto’ on iNat)

Ndebele and Sotho are ( I guess) another ones, in the language und(efined?).  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/32](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/32)

Download the file in that thread if you want to see all \>1000 lexicons.

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