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Thread #42507 Message #618417
Posted By: Haruo
30-Dec-01 - 12:51 AM
Thread Name: Help: Seattle Fish Market
Subject: RE: Help: Seattle Fish Market
I don't think I've ever seen them (the fishmongers at the Market) throw either a geoduck (note: "geoduck" is the correct spelling; "gooey duck" is the customary pronunciation, though etymologically it is closer to "gwee" than to "gooey", being from the Lushootseed gwídeq [the e should be rotated 180°, i.e. a schwa], Lushootseed being the anglicized indigenous name of the language(s) of Puget Sound, from the Skagit down to Squaxin Island.) or an octopus. Mostly it's more the salmon type of fish they pitch at one another.