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Karl, it isn't about shifting word-use. That's a red herring. Rather, it's about either rank ignorance or willful disregard of the phonologic–orthographic texture of the *written* language. That is not the way English has ever worked before in any existing precedent. Mummify, mummification are the precedent you're looking for here, *not* numen, numina, numinal, numinous, numinosity. And somebody goofed. That doesn't make it right, or good. It's just like children who get catachrestically named Marybeht because their parents didn't know that you spell the theta sound with a th in English, not with an ht. Sure, you can do it. You can do anything. But it looks stupid and it saddles the poor thing with a lifelong curse. See also HTTP_REFERER. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next