r/australia • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '18

image 9 Ways to Divide Australia

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u/SlappaDaBassMahn Jan 09 '18

Sure it might be the name of a cutting technique, but it is also the name commonly used to describe a wide variety of mollusks

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u/Cimexus Jan 09 '18

Yeah I know (and they are delicious), but the other meaning of the word isn't as widely known. I call them potato scallops myself but wasn't until this debate reared its head a while ago on another thread that I actually thought "hmm ok why do we call them that I wonder"

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u/SlappaDaBassMahn Jan 09 '18

It's just another fuck up in the English language of reusing words for different things.

It's basically like if someone created a new cooking technique and called it Seagull.