Congrats on your latest book, palu. I was looking at the cover and it looks like a stylised depiction of St. Michael’s Mount. Does that figure into the story somehow?
There is a castle on an island in the story, yes, but not St Michael's Mount. Mine is called The Eyt.
Oké. Still, it is an interesting setting— a castle on an island. I had to look up eyt. I found that term to be of old english origin and meaning, island. What then caught my interest was the plural of that word and I immediately recognised that the plural was formed as we form some plurals in Dutch. Language is interesting.
I would have to too, Palu. The thing is that I never really had any thoughts about it at all until a few years ago when I came on here. Seeing the variations of english usage catches my eye. I mean, of course I have had languages in school, but looking and thinking about word origins and looking at the groups of people that were using those words centuries ago. Seeing a sort of “big picture” through the ages of the various ethnic groups and their movements as well as looking at history is for me tremendously interesting now. Cor, just looking at the changes our language has gone through, the evolution of spelling, meaning pronunciation…all this and then seeing the addition of foreign words into our language through the centuries— all stimulates my interest. Sadly there is not much I can do with this, but it is fun trivia to be aware of.
This one has been a long time in the pipeline. Originally it was too short for a full book and too long to go in with another story, so I managed to add some to it.
