Babbie The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Nov 2011 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6112 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, by subject match 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------