Re: Natlang Help: Do you know of a language that...

Joe scripsit:

> > And BTW 'tis _Odinn_.  With one _n_ it'd be his sister! :-)
>
> Nah, 'tis Odin.  We speak English, yes?
Such endings are conventionally dropped in English, just as the nominative -r
is dropped (Thor, not Thorr); oddly, this is not done when the stem ends
in a vowel (the hero of Grimnismal is usually Grimnir, not Grimni).

> Parhaps it should be Woden, then...
Teribus ye Teri-Odin!
        --mysterious (but highly suggestive) refrain of the town song
        of Hawick, Scotland

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