On 18/05/2011 12:19, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2011/5/18<j...@jfeldredge.com>:
In American usage, seafood covers all aquatic-origin food, whether from fresh
water, estuaries, or the ocean.
In the context of OSM I am more interested in the British usage.
The word was invented by the Americans in the early 19th century. The
/OED/ has an amusing quote from 1935: "A writer in the London /Daily
Mail/ recently complained that an Englishman would find 'positively
incomprehensible' the American words../sea-food/,..and /hired-girl/."
--
Steve
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