Xopher: Thanks, that was instructive, and yes, I did mean the sound.
If you are interested, Latin orthography, unlike English, is fairly closely based on the pronunciation, and the Romans didn't really consider '/i/' and '/j/' ('/y/') separate, as they were mutually exclusive. The modern practice of writing '/j/' as 'J' in Latin originated in the Renaissance (Wikipedia names Pierre de la Rame9e as the inventor) (There is more (and better) information in Allen's Vox Latina...)
Jeremy, Inuits may well have had a diet consisting of all game meat. At a first approximation, I can't think of many plants living on the ice. (Then again, there's trade...)
Also, I vaguely remember a man who experimented with an Eskimo diet, apparently limited to fish and seal meat and fat. If I remember correctly, he got quite lean at the end, and his body chemistry changed. Among other things, he got low cholesterol, significant body odour, and started bleeding easily.
Can't remember the name of him though, it's probably in the literature.
(musing)
I wonder if the use of consonantal 'y' is as predictable in English as the use of consonantal 'i' (commonly rendered 'j') is regarded as being in Latin? Has anyone researched this, anywhere?
(replace-regexp "[AEIOUYaeiouy]" "") in Emacs Lisp.
I finally got X running on cygwin, and the -multiwindow and -rootless modes are quite nifty, only problem is I can't access fvwm's root menus. I probably have to move it to a window button.
Emacs is running beautifully, though.
And by the way,
"ed is the standard text editor".
Re: pnh and tnh's being national security assets:
I'm sure that Teresa's dsmvwlmnt lgrthm must be on the US munitions list and can only be exported abroad with a license from the State Department Office of Munitions Control...
Scott, sorry my link wasn't more helpful. I did discover it wasn't the right version. The one I remember was the Norwegian, not the Danish one (which was translated in the link I found). The Norwegian one has a hole in the ground, and a wall full of poison which makes it deadly to pass through it. No corridors, though. Curiously, the Green Knight is transported by magic to the princess. I'll leave you a link to the version I am thinking of, although it will very likely be unhelpful, as it is Norwegian only. (Courtesy of Project Runeberg)
Here's a link to an English translation.
It sounds vaguely like a Norwegian folk tale collected by Asbjf8rnsen and Moe which I believe is called The Green Knight in which a princess is locked inside a vault encircled with various poisons, and can call her paramour, known as 'the green knight' by opening a book she has been given. When she opens the book, the knight gets poisoned. I don't remember the rest, as it has been a while since I read it. It may be a variant of the tale you mention, although I am not sure it has been translated to a language accessible to Leiber.
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