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.