On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:23, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > #To those polite souls who have privately informed me how to spell the > #Demon Goddess's name, my bad. I'll stick to tDG in future because I'll > #never remember which leterr (hmm, this joke is a total failure) in her > #name to double. Probably I've been misspelling Khaavren wrong too - oops. > > You've got his name right. The problem with Verra's name is that the > pronunciation Steve gave us for it, "veera", is at odds with the > spelling. It probably has something to do with different people hearing > different things when a god speaks... ;-) This 'problem' is actually how I remember it. For quite a while I pronounced it along the lines of 'vera' (short 'e'), but then I saw the pronunciation guide and was quite shocked. So now I usually remember either the pronunciation or the spelling, and just remember to double the other letter to go between the two.