<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:34 AM, James Wynn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div id="MailContainerBody" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" canvastabstop="true" name="Compose message area"> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div><font size="2">>I'm in the middle of a very slow, hopefully thorough re-re-read of the SS series</font></div> <div><font size="2">>..I'll be hitting y'all up with sme thoughts & questions soon...but I agree I like the</font></div> <div><font size="2">>Syrex connesction but believe GW made it clear it was an unpronouncable word</font></div> <div><font size="2">>in a totally alien language..</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For record, (although I like the choice of Syrinx on a lot of levels) a literal transcription an pronunciation of Syrinx's name would be "Surigx". Not all that different from the pronunciation of the name of the goddess Sphigx. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I doubt the name, whatever it is, was intended to some made-up alien name. Its just not Wolfe's way.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">J</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><br></div><div>"Cybele" sounds vaguely like "Seawrack". I think the Magna Mater explanation is likely to be the right one.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>