On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:59:38 -0000, fi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>... As a Cornish girl, living in Cornwall, and having been a 'fishwife' in my
> youth,...My gran always called scallops 'queens'. ...
Did she mean any scallop, or only the "queen scallop" (Aequipecten
opercularis), as distinct from the great scallop (Pecten maximus)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecten_maximus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_scallop
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