Sheila
Sheila asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

A source of amusement to me is that in The Curse of Chalion the character Umegat's name is close to the phrase "Oh my God". Was this deliberate?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope.

I have no idea what language that notion would hold for. ...Maybe you pronounce it differently than I do? For me, it's OOM-me-gat.

Ta, L.

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