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Re: Weekly Vocab 9

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 29, 2003, 2:59
Herman Miller scripsit:

> "I well remember the reprimand I received from a New England shipmate when > I applied the informal scientific term "clam" to all bivalved mollusks (to > him a clam is only the steamer, _Mya arenaria_): "A quahog is a quahog, a > clam is a clam, and a scallop is a scallop.""
Thanks. -- A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want John Cowan to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and a rabbi who lets them do it jcowan@reutershealth.com isn't a man. --Jewish saying http://www.reutershealth.com

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