The next problem to be solved is–what is the 'Santharliman' of the East Coast fisherman?Naturally, I typed 'santharliman' into Google. No hits. You don't see that every day.*
*And you will only ever see it again if you get to Google before Google gets to this post.
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Google are quick. It took less than an hour.
It does of course now make you a Googlewhack.
Ooo, Google may well have been testing out their new faster indexing of blogs and social networking sites. /nerd
It does, but you can leave my name out of it and that makes 'santharliman' a SuperGooglewhack
Alas, no. For a true googlewhack, Google must underline the word in blue, indicating it's a real word, not just, for instance, a collection of syllables an East Coast fisherman put together to fool a gullible journalist.
'Oh, sure, yeah, we get a whole big haul of, uh, santharlimans 'bout this time of year. Long as they haven't been et up by the Grooberscunches, or the mighty Bingleybonglefish. You gettin' all this down? Two 'O's in Grooberscunch.'
Well, if and only if I spend some time reading through the relevant letters pages of the Fishing Gazette will I be able to get to the bottom of this. If they ever got to the bottom of it. Does the whole OED turn up Google? Maybe I should check that. I should check that.
The verifying word, which I totally don't need, is conslang, as in, "'santharliman', according to John Finnemore, is an example of East Coast fisherman's 'conslang'"
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