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Dictionaries expanding 'Hobbit' definition
June 21, 2005 at 12:26:56Although the origin of the word 'hobbit' remains in dispute,, J.R.R. Tolkien is generally credited even by the Oxford English Dictionary for establishing its primary meaning. And now a new definition has been added to the English language dictionaries.
News sites around the world are reporting that Collins has expanded its definition for 'Hobbit'.
Bird flu is in before a single case has been diagnosed in the UK and hobbit is defined in its new anthropological meaning -- "a nickname coined for a very small type of primitive human, Homo floresiensis, following the discovery of remains of eight such people on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2004."Source:
http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/10/stories/2005061000712000.htm.
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