User blog comment:Bkharvey/Things I don't understand/@comment-4093727-20180608060040

My guess on number 10 (Why "Mechanicsburgh"?) is that, just as the spelling of Heterodyne evolved from "Ht'rok Din", the spelling of Mechanicsburg evolved from "Mekkan's Burgh" through "Mechanicsburgh" to the "Mechanicsburg" we know and love (and fear) today. This would explain the Von Mekkan name for the Seneschals, for example.