Dragaera

vlad

Wed Mar 31 07:44:15 PST 2004

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:32:49 -0700, you wrote:

>lazarus wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:27:21 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
>"enchantress"?    Maybe the word they object to is "mountain".  That "ai"
>diphthong can be a killer.
>
>Who says it has to make sense?
>
>


It's the double "nch" sound, I think, that throws them.  Not too many
words in the English language like that, and folks tend to be
uncomfortable speaking unfamiliar words.