> bcombs@efn.org wrote: > > > Why not Victor? > > I would encourage readers to at least <sigh> take a look at the link > I posted earlier: > > http://www.cyberstudia.com/ogmios/texts/simpson/catstane/catstane.html > > in which it says in describing a pedigree: > ""Cujus pater fuit Wihtgels avus Wicta ; proavus WITHER, atavus > Wothen," &c." > > and where the "avus Wicta" means "Grandfather Wicta". The article > is all about a mixture of Latin, Angle, & Saxon talk, but the name > Wicta and its spelling variations has validity. Is it really all > that too much to ask that people take a look at evidence that has > been presented? > > Robert Heiling <robheil@attbi.com> So a person familiar with the name Wicta could hear the name Victor pronounced in a different way and misunderstand it. In the interest of considering all possibilities, your e-mail was way out of line. [ Folks, I'd encourage a lot of tolerance of each other's ideas. Sure, some are more likely to be correct (and some are just flat wrong (: ), but clueful readers will separate the wheat from the chaff and the simple-minded can't be helped in any case. - Mod ] Barbara Combs <bcombs@efn.org>