Re: OT:el nino and Gumboots
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- Subject: Re: OT:el nino and Gumboots
- From: D* B* <d*@ptialaska.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:35:34 -0700 (MST)
What an interesting language. Here is a recipe for eating "gumboots",
and interestingly enough, it has an Australian address:
http://www.mbc.qld.edu.au/students/gp8_bee.html. I wonder if this
has any relationship to the term, "tough as shoe leather" :-).
Here in Alaska, gumboots are a mollusc living primarily in the tide
zone. Some say they're edible, but I tried once and they're safe
from me.
http://lanecc.edu:1080/webpages/lcc/science/zonation/gumbootc.htm
Duane
dbuell@ptialaska.net
Marte Halleck wrote:
>
> inanda@pacificcoast.net wrote:
> >
> > cardie = cardigan = sweater that buttons down the front
> > gumbies = wellies = gum boots = wellingtons
> > What does the rest of the world call gum boots?
> > Ginny
>
> In the western US, they're called galoshes or, more boringly, just
> rubber boots.
>
> Marte in the mtns Zone 4/Sunset 1 Colorado
