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So - continuing on the medieval theme - I was trying to decide which modernization of "clerkes" I like: clerks or clerics. It's for a work of fantasy-fiction that steers quite close to the coast of the real Middle Ages. I settled on cleric.

I still like that clerks and clerics were once the same thing. Any educated cleric who couldn't get ordained went into bookkeeping instead. The separation was never quite complete, either, which is why clerks do clerical work and sometimes make clerical errors - which sounds like most of Pope Benedict's career thus far, but I digress.

I'm also tickled by the fact that most of my adult-life jobs have been as a cleric. I used to be a store cleric, now I'm a data-entry/record/filing cleric. I should start describing myself as such.

But it's just nice to know that - should the Zombie Apocalypse ever descend upon the school where I work - I now possess the power to turn undead. Good thing I wear my holy symbol under my shirt.