At 23:43 15-7-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote: >Clans: >Oosterwyck - fabled for beauty and sensuality, hired as a dance troupe for >the Initiation Ceremony (pg 186) I wonder where David Brin got the idea for that clan name. There is town a few dozen kilometers from where I live, called Oisterwijk. The spelling is slightly different, but the name is pronounced exactly like Oosterwyck. (The first "i" in "Oisterwijk" is silent. In Dutch, the "ij" is just one letter, similar to "y", but since most keyboards don't have a key for it, two letters are used to type it.) Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l
