Quote:
Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
pronounce:
Greenwich (as in mean time). now, for lunch did you have a sand-ich?
It's all part of the wonder that is our complex language. Celebrate it, don't fight it.
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"Wich" a celtic term for saltworks. Yet another of the fascinating things I learned from reading
Salt by Mark Kurlansky. I can't wait to read its predecessor
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, winner of the prestigious James Beard Award for food writing.
