[muglo] Re: "kettle of fish" [VERY OFF]
- From: Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:56:16 -0500
On 8-Feb-05, at 6:45 PM, Larry Kryski wrote:
> I wonder if any of our members who have British roots, might have had
> any exposure to this expression before they came to Canada? There is
> the Scottish reference in one of the definitions but that doesn't
> preclude the distortion of kentle. And I don't have any inkling as to
> the nature or
> status of the language spoken by the Scots at that time in history.
>
When I was a lad a "Kettle" was the name of the metal container that
fish were loaded into on the boat & hauled up to the Fish dock where
the kettles were weighed. They were quite large so 100 lbs would sound
about right. An uncle of mine used to but 203 kettles a week for his
store.
TTFN,
TeeC
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