Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2003/07

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Aliens before JK Rowling
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:04:02 -0400

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Michael Bryant wrote:

> I think I heard J. K. Rowling in an interviews claiming to have invented the
> name 'Dumbledores' but here is an example of its use by Thomas Hardy dating
> from 1872, with a possible pejorative reference to clarinet players:

"Dumbledore is an English word for "bumblebee" - Rowling says she always
imagined him 'buzzing' around the castle, whistling tunes to himself"

http://www.geocities.com/wizardingnetwrk/meanings.htm

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