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05 Apr, 2008

Odd Words: Dumbledore

Posted by: robertstevenson In: Interesting stuff

DUMBLEDORE/ˈdʌmb(ə)ldɔə/

A type of bee
Not the Headmaster of Hogwarts, though J K Rowling must surely have borrowed his name from the insect. And a nicely echoic word it is, which evokes the drowsy hum of bees on summer afternoons.
Its first part is one of a set of rhyming words from English of some centuries ago, the [...]


 

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