::nods:: "Scream like a Ban Sidhe", or a pale faery. Faeries is fierce, not like those Disney fairies, at all.

Never heard samhain pronounced any other way than phon --phoen-- the way it's spelled.

Phonetically.

The most that I'm familiar with is Sidhe being pronounced "She".

I didn't even know that. What the hell, Celtic?

C.J. Cherryh had a couple of Celtic faerie stories (The Dreaming Tree and Tree of Swords and Stones? --great books, btw) with an Olde English and I guess old Gaelic glossary, and it took a lot of flipping back and forth before I could wrap my head around characters names being spelled one way and pronounced another. I totally dug it, but have forgotten most of it now.

(thanks, P-C)

the prospect of telling Dad on him.

Ahh! I can see that.

The most that I'm familiar with is Sidhe being pronounced "She".

I didn't even know that. What the hell, Celtic?

Me neither. Is it Keltic or like Boston, SELL-tic?

And how is SIOBHAN Pronounced: shi-VAWN!? What is with these different than us? Burn them.

Keltic.

Isn't that "Sean"?

Heh. I just picture uncultured me at the front of a class taking attendance, saying, "Is Sigh-OH-ban O'Hara here? Sigh-Oh-ban?" And poor little Siobhan wondering if they were supposed to answer.

ETA: BEV, Loved the e-card!

HAPPY SAM HAIN EVERYONE!!

Dude, that is totally going to be my undercover name from now on. Just like Sam uses Jim Rockford.

"Go to the first motel listed in the yellow pages. Look for Jim Rockford..."

that was just a guess, like I said, I'm way way rusty. For all I know it's "Steve".

I'm on the side of Uriel being quieted by the thought of being reported to The Man by Castiel, although not knowing much about where Castiel lies in the heirarchy of angels, it's hard to say. I want to watch that scene again anyway with the knowledge that it was indeed a test.

I got a feeling that both angels were of equal, um, clout? No, status? Better. Just in different specialties. Castiel is a soldier, Uriel's a cleaner. Both have equal access to God's ear, neither has rank. Of course that's just an observation based on which of them dominated at different points in conversation, between themselves or with various Winchesters. And I'm totally going on observation here, I could be way off-base.

See, that thing with Shaun Cassidy in Bitches the other day, and well, Sean. And I have a friend named Shawn, and she's a girl. I dunno. Gonna fall back to Whedon and name 'em all Bill.

Eh, Google tells me that it is "Shivon" (shive-on or shy-von).

Maybe Uriel is like a former co-worker of mine, we'll call her Maura to protect her identity, who was on equal footing with me, but as soon as the top dog left, she began acting with more authority and power than she was supposed to have, and unless one of her equals reigned her in and called her on her shit, she did in fact become more powerful.

Eh, Google tells me that it is "Shivon" (shive-on or shy-von).

This. At least that's how they say it and spell it in Ballykissangel.