Bill Welch wrote:
Here's what some Americans think it means. From ARTFL Project, Webster's 1913 Unabridged at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
Zope (?), n. [G.] (Zoöl.) A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).
Which is correct. It's a fish living mostly in the danube regions and eastward of that. BTW, a lot of bones, not very delicate flesh :-( But I'm really surprised at the fact that anyone outside middle-/eastern europe ever noticed the existence of this creature :-) ta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- smartferret it-consulting Dipl.-Ing. Linzbichler KEG Dipl.-Ing. Takashi Veikko Linzbichler Tannhofweg 28/3 A-8044 Graz, Austria Tel.: 0316 / 39 89 40 -0 Fax: 0316 / 39 89 40 -20 Mobil: 0676 / 31 26 286 eMail: takashi.linzbichler@smartferret.com WWW: http://www.smartferret.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------