# Babbie *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Nov 2011* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### James Wynn *17 Nov 2011, 03:16* I'm guessing "Babbie" is probably Marble/Magnesia's cutesy nickname for "Babirusa"-- a fine Vironese name for a male hus. --- ### Lee Berman *17 Nov 2011, 06:14 · follows James Wynn* > James Wynn: I'm guessing "Babbie" is probably Marble/Magnesia's cutesy > nickname for "Babirusa"-- a fine Vironese name for a male hus. Good catch, James. Yep, in fact in chapter 5, page 3 of Calde', General Mint asked some soldiers for their names and the first one calls out, "Babirousa" which is an Indonesian wild pig. ---