Whats in a name?
 

Lately, or for a while now actualy, I've been wondering where Oddworld finds the inspiration for the various names they use on Oddworld. In one of the other topics we learnd of Zulag, maybe coming from Gulag, which is a (if I remember correctly) name for slave camps/prisons for political prisoners.

Now I'm wondering where names like Necrum come from. I mean, thats not a name I would just think up from the top of my head. Anyone know where they got inspiration for that name?

Necrum? Necros is greek for body. So... yeah.
And in latin, a word ending in -um is or

male - accusativum - single
or neutral -nominativum/accusativum - single

So maybe a combination of both.

Edit: Maybe the word Necrophelia clears stuff up aswell.

Necro- is a prefix relating to death and the dead, hence necrophilia, necropolis, necrosis (the dying of flesh) and necromancer (one who communicates with the dead).

Name-inspiration topics must be two-a-penny in OWF's databases by now, despite still not having covered all original Oddworld words.

I would like to know where OWI got the name for the Mongo River from, though. Is it a corruption of Congo, or is it named after the actual River Mongo?

EDIT: Wikipedia seems to sum up the richness and diversity of the word Mongo pretty well:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo

hmmm I guess sometimes Lorne has the exact idea for it, and the rest of the time Inhabitants just read what they think would be great on a big board, like for the live ammo :p