Re: What do you call someone from --- ?

[Alys of Foxdale <foxdale@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: Alys of Foxdale <foxdale@wolfstar.com>

> Folks from Isenfir are called Isenfiri (usually plural) and sometimes 
> Isenfarer (singular). I have known people to say "he is isenfiri" and 
> "they are isenfiri"; but they tend to stumble over saying "he is an 
> isenfiri". I'm not really sure what half-understood rules are at play there.
> 
> 
> Henry Best,
> 	coiner of the phrase "Another Fine Product"
> 	former seneschal of Isenfir

The difference between a noun and an adjective.  Your first two
examples employ Isenfiri as a predicate adjective, which is cool, but
in the third you attempted to use it as a noun, which is not.

   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.


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