Another monosyllabic base form for PSP

[Jim Parish]

On 5/7/2012 12:17 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
> Odd, what worries me about the whole thing is that her name is Romanov and
> not Romanova, but maybe there's some comic book history here that I'm not
> aware of (I had never heard of her before seeing the movie). FWIW (very
> little) I thought the bat context was fine, in the sense of "just batting my
> eyes would not have brought you here."

When she was first introduced in the comics, back in the '60s, her last
name was given as Romanov. At some point - I think it was in the '80s -
this was corrected to Romanova. Why the movie should have gone back to
the earlier name, I have no idea. (I haven't followed comics since the
early '90s; there may be an explanation somewhere in the intervening years.)

Jim Parish

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