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On 18/05/2011 12:19, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2011/5/18 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john@jfeldredge.com"><john@jfeldredge.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">In American usage, seafood covers all aquatic-origin food, whether from fresh water, estuaries, or the ocean.
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In the context of OSM I am more interested in the British usage.
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The word was invented by the Americans in the early 19th century.
The <i>OED</i> has an amusing quote from 1935: "A writer in the
London <em>Daily Mail</em> recently complained that an Englishman
would find ‘positively incomprehensible’ the American words‥<em>sea-food</em>,‥and
<em>hired-girl</em>."<br>
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Steve<br>
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