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The Shaggy D.A.
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Today I learned... Reply with quote

...that sea urchins are called that because hedgehogs used to be called urchins.

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urchin (n.)
c. 1300, yrichon "hedgehog," from Old North French *irechon (cognate with Picard irechon, Walloon ireson, Hainaut hirchon), from Old French herichun "hedgehog" (Modern French hérisson), formed with diminutive suffix -on + Vulgar Latin *hericionem, from Latin ericius "hedgehog," enlarged form of er, originally *her, from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (source also of Greek kheros "hedgehog;" see horror).

Still used for "hedgehog" in non-standard speech in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Shropshire. Applied throughout 16c. to people whose appearance or behavior suggested hedgehogs, from hunchbacks (1520s) to goblins (1580s) to bad girls (1530s); meaning "poorly or raggedly clothed youngster" emerged 1550s, but was not in frequent use until after c. 1780. Sea urchin is recorded from 1590s (a 19c. Newfoundland name for them was whore's eggs); Johnson describes it as "a kind of crabfish that has prickles instead of feet."


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PostPosted: 18:01 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

So why not call sea urchins seahogs?

Or change hedgehogs to Hedgeurchins?

What ever happened to the phrase: KIS? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I call them echinoids....
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I call them Dave.
All of them, they’re all called Dave Thumbs Up .
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
I call them Dave.
All of them, they’re all called Dave Thumbs Up .


i call Dave, Rodney.
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PostPosted: 21:31 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think hedgehog numbers have declined as the reports say, I reckon past population estimates were inaccurate. When I was a kid you hardly ever saw one, but I’ve regularly seen up to four in one go at the last two suburban houses I’ve lived in. I reckon badgers are more common too, but only on the basis that I never saw even a dead one, yet now there’s lots on the roads. It could just be that I’ve relocated though.
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PostPosted: 10:20 - 11 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
I call them echinoids....


I learned something today.

I thought you got echiniods from sitting on cold surfaces. Shocked
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PostPosted: 16:52 - 13 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

alsol, mole hills used to be called wantitumps
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PostPosted: 18:42 - 13 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Useless fact:
Maoris like to eat sea urchins (which they call "kina") raw, they dive for them, and then break them open to eat whilst still standing in the waves, fresh as you can get.

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PostPosted: 19:06 - 13 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maoris were cannibals so it doesn't surprise me.
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PostPosted: 04:56 - 07 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shaggy is still on here.
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 07 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

SpiritMr89 wrote:
Shaggy is still on here.


I is confused Confused

Shaggy D.A.? Why wouldn't he be?
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PostPosted: 10:59 - 07 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

More to the point, where's MCN got to?
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 07 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

SpiritMr89 wrote:
Shaggy is still on here.


No I'm not.
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 07 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
I call them echinoids....


And when three of them come bouncing alog the road you say "echi, echi, echi, fa-doing!"
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