To: PatrickHenry
Geoduck ping.
(For the uninitiated, that's pronounced, "gooey duck." No, I don't know why.)
19 posted on
08/18/2006 1:56:46 PM PDT by
Condorman
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To: Condorman
Geoduck ping. (For the uninitiated, that's pronounced, "gooey duck." No, I don't know why.)
It was a typographical error in a mid-1800s dictionary. The word reported to the dictionary was spelled "goeduck," which was one of several accepted spellings, but the "o" and the "e" were transposed, and subsequent dictionaries picked-up the error.
Additional info re 'ducks: I have heard the word was a Nisqually phrase meaning, literally, "dig deep." Also, FYI, geoduck digs are great chick magnets. Women love to see men working like hell for food in the mud, and large numbers of them will voluntarily attend a dig. Although, in my personal experience, none of them will go after the 'duck. That's strictly a man's job.
26 posted on
08/18/2006 2:27:52 PM PDT by
Ironclad
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