On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:27:21 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >--- David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >> I think there's a noticeable difference between "The Enchantress of >> Dzur Mountain", which is long, and just "Dzur", which has the hard to >> say word in it but is at least short. With luck the latter will be >> more manageable. > >I'd guess that it would be better to say "The Enchantress of >*inaudible* Mountain" or "Brust's new book about the Enchantress" >than it would be to cope with one "unpronounceable" word. > Is it possible that it's not just "Dzur" that the people at Tor were worried about, but the combination of "Enchantress" and "Dzur"? I've heard "educated" people stumble over words like "enchantress" before.