Names (was: Word Play

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Names (was: Word Play
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6379] Re: Word Play
Date: 8/9/00 1:30 pm  (ET)

> Albus means white in latin.

And "white" has the connotation "pure" in Latin. I think the reason that
"Albus" sounds like "Albion" (a poetic name for the island of Britain)
is that "Albion" is derived from "albus" and refers to the "white cliffs
of Dover".

> Pomfrey I'm not sure about.

Pomfrey sounds like "comfrey", an herb used in herbal medicine.
Dictionary.com says: com'frey (kmfr)
 Any of various hairy perennial Eurasian herbs of the genus Symphytum,
 especially S. officinale, having variously colored flowers in coiled
 cymes and long used in herbal medicine. Also called healing herb. HEALING
 HERB -- THAT'S OUR MADAM POMFREY!

http://www2.tscnet.com/pages/omard1/jportat5.html
says some of its other names area bruisewort (which means an herb good
for curing bruises) and boneset (which is self-explanatory).

I had friends in New York City who always recommended it for respiratory
garbage ("colds").