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  • egrets@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world•Nurse Shark [OC]
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    1 year ago

    Ok, now we’re cooking with gas! They cite The Sharks of North America (Castro, 2011) which says:

    The name “nurse” comes from “nusse,” meaning fish, which appears in print as early as 1440 in the Promptorium Parvulorum, an early English/Latin dictionary. […] “Nuses were there so plentie, that they would scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes” (Hakluyt 1589).

    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “nusse” is derived from the earlier “huss,” the ancient name for the catsharks

    The Promptorium Parvulorum has an entry for husk:

    Husk of fyshe: Squamus, -i; Masc.,

    with a note against that entry:

    ‘Huske, fyshe,’ Harl, some kind of fish.

    • ‘Hush, the Lump, a fish,’ JAMIESON.
    • ‘Husse, a fysshe : rousette,’ PALSGRAVE.
    • ‘Huss, the dogfish,’ HALLIWELL.

    So we have to trust the OED about the transformation from huss to nuss. I guess it could be the classic misdivision/rebracketing (“an huss” becoming “a nuss”) that gives us “nickname” and “newt”.



  • Did some quick reading on this. A few articles linked back to Belgian news site 7sur7, so I’m referencing that article here:

    • The group who did this was Stop Arming Israel, not Palestine Action.
    • They targeted OIP Land Systems because they’re a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, who are a major manufacturer of weapons sold to Israel.
    • OIP used to sell military vehicles to Israel, but haven’t for a couple of decades.
    • The result was a one-month delay in delivering the vehicle shipment to Ukraine.
    • The CEO described the activists as “sympathisants du Hamas”, which personally makes me mistrust anything else he says.

    I don’t mean to condone the damage they did - Ukraine needs all it can get - but it would be easy to read your message and think they’d deliberately taken action to hurt the Ukraine defence effort by raiding a company unconnected with Israel’s genocide.




  • I’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:

    Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.

    He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough – the ping of Trump’s account seems pandering, but it’s not exactly a million-dollar donation to his inauguration.

    10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.

    Implies Republicans look to promote small businesses against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.

    People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

    Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.