Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 3:42 |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:42:33 +0100, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>At 07:35 +0100 23.1.2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>>Shakespearean, Miltonic, Shavian are all well established.
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>I wonder, is the change of final -w to -v- before -ian in any sense "regular"?
>Would an invention by a person named Crow be "Crovian"? Would Kew give Kevian?
>And what about names in final -gh? Does Leigh give Leighian or Leighan or
>something else?
I don't know about that, but fans of the BBC TV series _Doctor Who_ are
called "Whovians"!
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