Talk:Scholomance

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Taken from the body of the article: This is something that can be edited so stop using it as a basis for your arguements. -- 13:10, 23 March 2006 71.197.96.77

Dear 71.197.96.77: The body of an article is not an appropriate place to place notes regarding what should or should not be in an article, particularly notes directed at specific other authors. That is the purpose of this talk page. Your earlier edit introduced an "l" into the body of the quoted text from Dracula, which is not there in the copy available online from Project Gutenberg, which I feel we should be able to treat as an authoritative source. If you have evidence that your change reflects the intended original text of Dracula, please present it. In the meantime, why don't you register for an account and read over the editing guidelines? -- Andrés Santiago Pérez-Bergquist 23:23, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

What is the proper pronounciation for this Scholomance?

I've heard it pronounced "SHOW-lo-mance". Astralcamper 19:26, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I've heard "Scho-lo-mance", the Scho being pronounced like "Skolo"

I did a web search but can't find a pronounciation guide. However, my guess is it would be pronounced with an "sk" sound like "Scholar", since the prefix of the word probably has the same derivation as "scholar" and "school" and the "mance" ending could vaguely mean "magic". The word "necromancy" is derived in part from manteia "divination, oracle," from manteuesthai "to prophesy," and/or from mantis "prophet", all of which imply supernatural knowledge. Thus "scholomance" probably means something like "school of supernatural knowledge". That's just my guess though. Dugwiki 22:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)