OOC: Draconomicon

[sythyry]

A bit of OOC stuff about the dragon novel. Only in sythyry 'cause it's a poll.

In this irromantic story about dragons, I want to have words for male and female dragons that sound a bit less clinical than "male" and "female". "Dragoness" is fine for female.

I've been using "drake" for "male dragon".

Which is sort of sensible, 'cause that word (a) is sometimes used for a dragon, and (b) is sometimes used for a male (of another species).

[Poll #1060106]

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

It seems weird to have dragoness obviously derived from dragon but drake not... on the other hand, both are obvious as far as what you mean by them. And better than using entirely made up words, which is always kind of cheesy.