> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Bokkon [mailto:vikipants at hotmail.com] > or simple laziness, Dragaerans have taken to leaving a few > letters out of the most polysyllabic words/names. Think > modern French versus Medieval French. Just a thought... RMB Paarfi says in an interview (or preface?) that he used phrases & language that would or might have been in use at the time. Perhaps this includes spelling. Either that's the spelling that was used at the time, and it did change (along with pronunciation), or he's using poetic license to give it that flavor. Paarfi aside, SKZB may have chosen these discrepencies as a way of emphasizing the different "authors". Rachel