Ship Naming Convention (off topic Celts etc.)

> At 02:16 07/04/98 GMT, you wrote:

SNIP Celtic properly refers to the language rather than anything else (so you
get tall blonde Celts, short dark Celts etc.), so it doesn't include the
Germans but does include Gauls, Galatians, Irish and Picts (more or less),
Britons (all with numerous splendid tribal names e.g. Volcae Tectosages,
Insubres, Catuvellauni [="Battle experts"!] etc.- as I recall, the
Celtic
and Italic groups are most closely related, with Celto-Italic and
Germanic being closely related. Interestingly, according to a fascinating
Channel 4 documentary last month, other members of this language group include
the
tartan-wearing inhabitants of the Takla Makan desert in modern China!

Rob

> One could follow some sort of a heroic naming scheme