Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-98.247.21.9-20151111165123/@comment-27718380-20151112002705

That is true, but it's still an annoying repetition. The armour was called mail because as I have stated it means chain, and it was interlocking chains of (insert material). Originally, platemail was a mix of something somewhat similar to a mix of lamellar armour and mail. The name came from the words plated mail, which accounted for the plates added to the mail. Over time, this turned into full plates, but the name stayed. The armour is mail, and platemail is an adjective added on in effect. Mail refers to the chains that make it up, and while encompassing platemail due to the reasons I specified, it means the chains making it up. The most common of these is what you refer to as chainmail, which just says generic mail, which could be far more easily said as mail. It is unnecessary.