Uluru path crossing a sacred traditional Dreamtime track, and also due to a sense of responsibility for the safety of visitors. The visitors guide says "the climb is not prohibited, but we prefer that, as a guest on Aṉangu land, you will choose to respect our law and culture by not climbing." According to a 2010 publication, just over one-third of all visitors to the park climb Uluru; a high percentage of these were children. A chain handhold added in 1964 and extended in 1976 makes the hour-long climb easier, but it is still a steep, hike to the top, where
Paronymic attraction Paronymic attraction In etymology, including onomastics, paronymic attraction is the distorting effect exerted on a word by one of its paronyms (that is, a quasi-homonym). Paronymic attraction is the origin of many names. The attraction can even be cross-linguistic: the resemblance between the Romanian language word "locaţie" (a space for which a rent should be paid) and the English word "location" helped a semantic shift of the former word to include the latter sense. A common phenomenon, paronymic attraction is usually expressed through the replacement of a word whose meaning is not understood by a term designating a name (common