Dragaera

Morrolan (was: RE: Aliera & Kiera)

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Sat Jun 19 19:05:37 PDT 2004

Some have written:

# given to Morollan had

#some reference to Morollan's library and then says something along the lines

#of "But you know what Morollan's library is like, right? Never mind, I

I make so bold as to remind those members of this community who have
difficulty keeping track of the location of double letters in a word --
a handicap which I have observed is quite common among native speakers
of the English language, the spelling of which is notorious for its
arbitrariness and inconsistencies -- that the authoritative
representation in our alphabet of the given name of the lord of Castle
Black, whose meaning is "Dark Star" in the language of the Silites, is
"Morrolan", with double-R and single-L.

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel