Babbie

Lee Berman · 17 Nov 2011, 06:14 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:14:33 -0500
Subject: (urth) Babbie
Message-ID: <SNT123-W1597840E3FA58336E7FDDACFC70 at phx.gbl>

>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.

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