On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: #skzb wrote: # #> Teresa, on her Web log, was just discussing this--the difficulty #> pronouncing the combined sounds of "Echantess" and "Dzur" close to #> each other. There are two assumptions here: 1) The sales people #> don't know anything and can't read 2) One wants the salespeople #> enthusiastic about the book. # #One thing is that none of the titles mean much for people who don't know #what they're buying. Heck, there are fans of the series who have trouble #remembering which novel is _Jhreg_. # #I wonder if people have returned _Dragon_ or _Orca_ to the store saying that #the title mislead them. # #p.s. The above quote has "Enchantess", (without an "r" which could cause #some confusion) and without an 'n'... and "Jhereg" with only one 'e' ... but who's counting? -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel