Béasach : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “BAY*-suhk*”
1. Polite
2. Well-behaved; well-mannered

Béarla : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “BAY*R-luh”
1. English (language)

Bean, beann, beanmná : (Gaeilge – Irish) : pron. “ban”
1. Woman
2. Wife; mo bhean = my wife
3. (Of women, girls) One.
4. -mná = ladies

Bán : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “baw*n”
1. White
2. White-headed
3. Fair
4. Pale

Báid : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “BAW*-id”
1. Sympathy; liking
2. Kindred feeling; kinship

Bad Language : Rude Words. Belgium. Less offensive words have been created in the many languages of the galaxy, such as joojooflop, swut and Holy Zarquon’s Singing Fish. The use of bad language can have unforeseen circumstances. One example is the war between the G’gugvunts and the Vl’hurgs, caused by a casual remark made by Arthur Dent being mistaken as a terrible insult. Simultaneous Babel Fish translation also means that any being can be rude to any other being without the need for extensive explanations. This has also started many wars. The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.

Bád : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “*baw*d”
1. Boat

Babel Fish : The Babel fish is a small, yellow, leech-like creature, and probably the oddest thing in the MultiVerse. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. The Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races, species, and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation, with the possible exception of religion. Some say that the evolution of the Babel fish could not have been accidental, and hence that it proves the non-existence of God. Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only ‘Eurgh!’ when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry – not, necessarily, a good thing.