Re: Bilbo

Patrick Jarnett>
>Hey guys, just a little tidbit to see if you all already knew this, bilbo,
>the name from the main character in JRR Tolkien's Hobbit is also a word
>which means sword.
>
>I was flipping through the dictionary and the word caught my eye, my mind
>immediatly thought JRR's character had been admitted to the new dictionarys
>but I read the entry and it described it as a type of sword.
>
>Useless but interesting fact of the day
IIRC, "Bilbo" is also the Basque name of the Spanish city Bilbao.

                                                         Andreas
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