Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Couple of E-330 shots -- Naming the Leicapus -Olyca?
From: pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)
Date: Thu Mar 9 21:50:39 2006
 
I like the "nom du LUG" that I gave to my E-1 to be sorta on-topic: 
Oleicus.  Pronounced o-LYE-cus.

It still fits.  O'Lyca sounds Irish!    :-)

--Peter

At 01:04 PM 3/9/2006 -0800, Gary wrote:
>B.D. and Tom - Hey, not bad! Olyka or Olyca - it's one syllable shorter than
>OlympuLeic and has a nice style and ring to it, especially with the accent
>on the second syllable. It gives Olympus the first place in the word and
>three out of the five letters. But it sounds the most like Leica (Olyca =
>O-like'-a) and looks a bit like Leica in the Olyca version .