[HPforGrownups] Whats in a name, Latin.
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random832 at rcbooks.org
Thu Jul 17 22:44:33 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 71240
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 02:32 America/Indianapolis, M.Clifford
wrote:
>
> Dumbledore can be split in to dum-b/ple-dore
> and hence can be viewed as: while much is given.
> Quite apt, I believe since our experience of Dumbledore *is* while
> much is given........ you know the rest.
Dumbledore is an old english word for bumblebee.
> -Evanesco- also contrivedly but its interesting; 'eva' as later
> and 'esc' as a suffix that gives begin or grow. So the object is
> vanished from now and sent to later. Rather than made to be gone
> completely. I wonder if everyone 'evanesco'ed a whole lot of things
> at once would _later_ become a little crowded. :b
I read it as just a distorted version of the english word "vanish".
Not everything has to be latin, you know.
--Random832
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