Yes, I'd always believed (since I did latin at school) that "barbarian" came from "barbarus" -- civilised people shave, after all! So if your name's Barabara, you're a "savage woman" (or literally a woman with a beard, I suppose).

Fib. Mat., I think "daylight robbery" is more likely to come from the fact that most cut-purses, footpads, highwaymen and other undesirables operated under cover of darkness, so if anyone was brazen enough to rob you in broad daylight in plain view of the whole world, it was mightily shocking. If we all ask TOWFI we can find out!

Steve