[Zope] The meaning of Zope
Pierre-Julien Grizel
grizel@mouli.net
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:55:23 +0100
Takashi Veikko Linzbichler wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
>
Paul told us at the Paris Zope conference that it was in fact a Britain
word.
But does anyone know the actual meaning of "Zope" in Britain ???
P.-J.
> ta
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