Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> I did assume that the name was either Japanese or Hawaiian.
Common Germanic; compare Nw _hake(fisk)_, dialectal Eng. hake 'hook',
Germ _hecht_ 'pike'.

Roger Mills scripsit:

> I suspect it wouldn't be prominently featured anywhere, since it's
> basically a junk fish that just happens to get hauled up with the good
> stuff in the north Atlantic.
Well, there are several species: in Europe there is _Merlucius vulgaris_,
which is probably what you ate some years back, and in America there is
_M. bilinearis_, the whiting, and _Phycis chuss_ and _P. tenius_, which
are important for both oil and food.  Hake is also called codling
or just ling.

Googling for "hake recipe" turns up about 4300 hits, and "hake menu"
over eight thousand.  Furthermore, it turns out that Boston scrod
("I never heard the pluperfect tense before") is often hake nowadays.

Trebor Jung scripsit:

> Ah, reminds me of the time (among a few) that I heard someone pronounce
> the <sz> in the Hungarian name <L\341szl\363> as [z] (the correct
> pronunciation is [s]). In this case (now that I think about it) one
> person who I remember mispronouncing <sz> was married to a Hungarian!
An actual Hungarian, or a North American of Hungarian origin?  I think
that most Laszlos in N.A. call themselves ['l&zlou].

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