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I'm not too sure, as I was only a little girl, and I'm remembering back many, many years - in fact, more than I really want to remember! She probably meant any scallop shaped shellfish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Appleyard" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [EPNL] Fish names 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.31/2028 - Release Date: 03/28/09 07:16:00