"vegetarian" redux

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:06 PM -0600 2/18/09, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>At one point I was a vegetarian, and I got mighty annoyed at other
>"vegetarians" who regularly ate seafood or poultry.
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>Scot

Re Arnold's comment that

"Many speakers of English reserve the word vegetarian for reference
to people who do not eat things in the FLESH category (including
SEAFOOD). But some (like, apparently, the server in the vignette
above) extend the word to take in the eating of things in the SEAFOOD
category. For this, some people use pescetarian (or pesco-vegetarian
or piscatorian)."

A variant possibly worth noting (used e.g. by Barbara Abbott, who is
one herself) is "peskytarian".

LH

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>On 2/18/09, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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