Hi all.

So, Professor Rouge has started up a new fanfiction archive which is a part of the Official website. This archive is a bit like Fanfiction.net, only smaller and only about Harry Potter.

We need a new name for this site. A few people have made suggestions, others havent. So, pick your favourite names (you get two votes), and lets give this site a name.

Thanks :)

:P I just had to vote for LeakyLit; I'm rather proud of that one.

Some of them conjur up really weird images though. I'm not going to say which and why... just that I thought back to my frat house days for a moment.

Wow, I actually got feedback - for once -. Thanks Sil :)

If you don't wish to say, then I won't ask.

This is a bit off topic, but it will bug me FOREVER if I don't say it. You know where it say's "Hogwarts's Unquiet Quills"? Well, this is kind of a spelling/grammer thing... But here we go:
If a name/word has an 's' on the end and then you go to put an ' on it... you do not put another s afterwards. You would leave it as Hogwarts'...
At least by what we do over here...

Anyway, I also voted for LeakyLit, because I though it sounded cool and had a good flow! ^^

Actually, that's one of those gray areas.

The rule used to be (and still is, if you wanna get technical) add 's to singular nouns, no matter what they end in. You only left off the second s if the word was plural and already ended in s.

Of course, the practice of using the apostrophe and no s on words that already end in s, singular or plural, is so common that it's now not only widely accepted but even taught in English classes.

((Edited because somehow my pontifications on the intricacies of English grammar and usage looked funny when rife with spelling errors. :P Isn't sleep deprivation fun?))

Miu, I doubt it will be chosen, so it won't really matter. But if it is chosen, I'll look it up and make sure it's correct :)

And more feedback. It's amazing!

LeakyLit all the way!!

So it would seem.

Rather nice names...... i like the Hogwarts one though...

Yeah i kinda like the Hogwarts one too.
And its def Hogwarts' unquiet quills. Hogwarts's? thats never right...is it? :wacko: lol

Unquiet Quilles all the way! It has a eerie hauntedness about it that pulls me in and makes me want to see what's there. and also I think Hogwarts' looks and sounds better. But I am from the old school.

Yea I'm with the other, Hogwarts' looks right, thats what I was taught in lower school english and Uni and College english. And I LOVE Hogwarts' Unquiet Quills, thats deff a winner!

Hmm... I suddenly have feedback. That's a miracle.

Unfortunately it appears that LeakyLit is going to win.. and I was so hoping it would be Authoroplis *sigh*. Oh well.

but unquiet quill is making a comeback! and i authoropolis is very clever.

So Authoropolis should win, no? I think so.. and I'm not saying that because I thought of it.. because I didn't. I think Sil did.

It's a pain to spell and pronounce, but it's different, and catchy and unique. And that's what you need in a name

Get your votes in :)

Not to be contrary (or maybe just for the sake of contariness), it's definitely Hogwarts's

From Strunk and White's Elements of Style (which is, next to an unabriged dictionary and thesarus, hands down the most vital tool of any English teacher, student or writer):

II. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.

There's a reason this was the first rule Strunk put down. It doesn't matter what looks or sounds right or what your teacher taught you (you have my permission and encouragement to go back and tell them so); if the noun is singular, add 's even if it ends in S... or two or three S-es, for that matter.

Back to the topic, though: I don't know who came up with authoropolis. I like it, but it has more of the feel of an online writers' group that a fan fiction site. Maybe, if it doesn't win, some of us authorly types could steal it and use it elsewhere. (Yes, that is a joke.)

Oh Sil.

Thanks for clearing that up :)

Hmmm... I belive that this is the 18th of March, today, Tuesday. So, the poll is now finished.

And the winner is...

LEAKYLIT

Darn... :P