Replacing "IE" (oops!)

Piotr wrote:
<Microsoft's lawyers have just notified eGroups that the unauthorised use of
the abbreviation "IE" on the Internet (regardless of its actual reference)
will qualify as copyright infringement and all necessary legal steps will be
taken to discourage it. We are therefore requested to invent a new
abbreviation for "Indo-European"....>

May I suggest as a highly appropriate replacement the well-documented (Ankara
T Tabls. 345.1, 379.2, 1077) Hittite warcry, "(h2)ai-yee/ee!" Thus we could
refer to the family as the (?)Ai-yeeeeh! Languages and continue our search
for the (?)Ai-yeeeeh! Homeland without risking needless and costly litigation.

S. Long