Jerry Friedman wrote: > I think you can let that thought perish. I haven't met our > esteemed author, but my impression of him from the books, > his posts to this list, and his responses to Mark on "Cracks" > is that he's not very nitpicky about this sort of thing. > (Unlike me and other people who have strong opinions on > "CD's" versus "CDs".) He might easily make a mistake in > coming up with a hypocoristic version of "Morrolan", or not > notice that "Welok" was misspelled on a map he'd commissioned. > I could be wrong--in which case we may see whether he notices > mistakes about his character--but I don't try to interpret > anything in his books that could be a mistake. This reminds me of people who demand a particular spelling of Shakespeare or Tchaikovsky. Their names weren't in our alphabet Shakespeare spelled his name multiple ways - spelling wasn't codified then. But we assume it is codified in Dragaera?