[Northkeep] Just a point on names

[Marc Carlson]

> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:04:51 -0500
> From: burgborrendohl at valornet.com
> To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Just a point on names

> OK, please, please do not take offense, but anything with 'hird' 
> reminds me of cattle. And 'Efenhird' sounds like someone is not happy 
> with the cattle :-) . (Perhaps the pronunciation is different than I'm 
> reading it.)

No, that's pretty much how it's pronounced.  As in "That Effin' herd from Ansteorra."
 
> My favorite is still Quivara, but I do agree with His Excellency that 
> 'Arengan' is nice. I do not read Spanish, but would like to make sure 
> the verb has no other negative connotations.

I'm with you on the Quivara thing - especially if it's pronounced as I think is 
correctly - "ki-VAR-ah".  We might even go with Quivaria, to slide a little from the
historical.  But I think we're going not get this...
 
m/d