Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2003/07

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Aliens before JK Rowling
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:16:46 -0400

I agree; the Hummelbee, Humblebee or Bumblebee.
The first known printed reference to Dumbledores was in 1787, (OED 1979)
- well after the clarinet appeared on the scene. Also the Cockchafer,
(aka Maybug in Europe, or May or June Beetle in the USA)
MB

Mark Charette wrote on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Aliens before JK Rowling

> 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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