Re: intrinsically dead character of Livagian
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 7, 2000, 16:09 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> (_orkn_ = "killer whale", no less!)
Latin "orca", Old English "orc" > Tolkien English. "Orca" now has
some popularity in Modern English as the name of the animal, because
of the bad connotations of "killer".
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