>And therefore, the spelling of Broyan/Brian/Brion's name is completely
>irrelevant and meaningless to Orlanthi society, almost certainly including
>him.
It's easy enough for differing accents to be produce that sort of difference in spelling when written down. That's assuming the language the name was first written in records vowels - some languages, e.g. Hebrew, don't. So it could have been written "Brn" because everyone knows what vowels are correct.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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