Question: Baruffio and the buffalo

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90251

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<navarro198 at h...> wrote:


Neri:
> > I would have thought that the editors got it mixed up as usual 
and 
> it 
> > actually should have written "said `f' instead of `s' ", but what 
> the 
> > @$#& is a "bussalo"??? Do we need a Latin expert here?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Neri


Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> According to the dictionary.com/translate page, 'bussalo' is 
Italian 
> for 'it knocks'.  I wonder what Wizard Baruffio was really trying 
to 
> do...?


Geoff:
That assumes that the word "buffalo" was part of the spell. I would 
agree that to mix up 's' and 'f', it might have to be in a different 
language (such as Latin). There are certain words in, for example, 
German which I sometimes have trouble pronouncing clearly although 
they have never produced such drastic results.  :-)