At 18:02 06/24/2004 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >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? I agree with the Shakespeare comment. "Tchaikovsky" is the French transliteration of the Cyrillic. Germans have it Tschaikowski, I think. The usual English transliteration of the Cyrillic would be "Chaikovskiy", but as the composer himself used the French spelling when he appeared in the United States, that is what is normally used, instead. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net