On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alexx Kay wrote: #> #> Jerry Friedman wondered aloud to the group: #> >By the way, since we're talking about female Dragaerans too, do Dragons #> >ever inherit their "e'" surname from their mother? #> #> I suspect that when two Dragons agree to parent a child, there is an #> agreement made as to which line-name the child will bear. Some agreements #> will be morganatic, some patrilineal, some matrilineal, some whichever #> line-name is of higher prestige, some whichever line is more in need of an #> heir. # #I don't recall having heard the word "morgantic" before. Luckily, google #(of course) had: #"MORGANTIC MARRIAGE - During the middle ages, there was an Note that it's "morgan<a>tic". You were lucky that The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon misspelled it in the same way you did. Google gives me 44 hits for this spelling, vs. about 2,270 for the correct one. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel