Tortilla Soup/Aztec Soup

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Dec 3 22:39:46 UTC 2007


On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2007 3:41 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> (the only google hit i got for "domozoic" was a website claiming to
>> trace the Levitical prohibition against eating shellfish to the
>> possibility of poisoning by domozoic acid.  i am dubious.)
>
> You'll find more hits for "domoic acid" (though that's not in the
> OED either).

ah.  yes.

i must have misremembered.  a very clear recollection, but no doubt
mistaken.

the OED point remains, of course.

arnold

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