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Re: Cyninglic (was: RE: Runes (was: Re: RV: Old English))

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Sunday, April 2, 2000, 20:30
John:
> And Rosta scripsit: > > > "Cyninglic Theodenlic" sounds as august as "Basileus", but "Kinningly > > Theedenlidge" sounds as if he must have been a long-forgotten unsuccessful > > vice-presidential candidate in the 1897 US presidential elections. > > Ahem. U.S. Presidential elections are in leap years, like this one. > But the point about the name is well taken.
And there was I thinking that by saying "1897" I'd preempt pedantic replies (such as "Actually, the unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates in the 1896 US presidential elections were [so & so]")! &-) --And.