On Saturday 22 February 2003 5:19 pm, John M. Dollan wrote:
> Wasn't it also called Westernesse? It's been a while since I've read
> Tolkien...
Westernesse is the English word, Numenor is the Elvish(I forget whether it was
Quenya or Sindarin)
> ...John...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: "Common" Tongues
>
> > It would astonish me if this use of "Common" weren't drawn from JRRT's
> > "Common Speech", which indeed was a trade-tongue in origin, though
>
> decreolized
>
> > when adopted by the Numenorians in exile.