(urth) Names on the Whorl

[David Stockhoff]

  Which were the Anglo names? Were they trades, like Baker or Chandler?

On 9/7/2010 11:51 AM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com 
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>     Blood is not a good example. We happen to know the exact circumstances of his naming, and Maytera Rose broke the regular convention by calling him "Bloody" after her difficult (perhaps C-section) childbirth. Since that was an adjective and not a noun it was soon converted to Blood by everyone except Rose herself.
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>     It looks like the mother has the most say about the name. Another example is Nettle, named so by her mother out of dislike for her child.
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> Did she actually call him "Bloody"? I thought that was just her pet 
> name for him.
> On a tangent, I wonder why Viron has this naming system, while all the 
> other towns don't?
> Modulo the issue of what's being translated as against reported, the 
> other towns have naming conventions which look like they come from Urth.
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> mercenaries in SS.)
> Are we to assume that Urth had a region with the Vironese conventions? 
> Is there anywhere like that in the real world?
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