The idea that there was a "civitas" with a Latin name meaning "people of the kingdom" (that is, a client kingdom, rather than the territories ruled directly by Roman officials) has attracted criticism. For example: "Even the reading of the genitive plural tribe name in "Regnentium" is a tendentious emendation ... To go further and turn all this into "Regnenses", 'The People of the Kingdom', is more than rash ... The tribal name in Ptolemy is "Regnoi", "Rignoi", or "Reginoi" ... It is proposed ... that this was British "Regini"" (Jackson 1970). "This is surely right" (Rivet & Smith 1979). "This...is the more acceptable" (Cunliffe 1973. p. 24), adding a comparison with Gaulish "Regin" or Old Welsh "Regin", originating from a British word "Regini" meaning "the proud ones, the stiff ones".