Revisiting: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

APOSTROPHES Few NAMES in Fantasyland are considered complete unless they are interrupted by an apostrophe somewhere in the middle (as in Gna'ash).  The only names usually exempt from apostrophes, apart from those of most WIZARDS, heroes, and COMPANIONS on the Tour, are those of some COUNTRIES.  No one knows the reasons for this.

So writes Diana Wynne Jones in The Tough Guide to FANTASYLAND which came to mind as I read Eva's "Language of Fantasy" post this morning (and seems an apt follow-up to