Stuck at Q
When you play Alfapet (Scrabble in the US) and need a letter starting with Q, how about QUAHOG? I bet that can lead to lots of points. That is what this is. It can become a giant clam, often washed up on sandy shores in winter. This photo is from Sandy Hook in New Jersey, USA, a cold January day. Those purplish edges look nearly unreal and were used by the native Americans for beads. It has an English name too, hard clam, but that sounds not at all as good as quahog. You can eat it and people do, in clam chowder (a kind of soup), stuffed clams, and as fried clam strips you can dip in fiery horse-radishy tomatey cocktail sauce. Wikipedia says: "In fishmarkets there are specialist names for different sizes of this species of clam. The smallest clams are called countnecks, next size up are littlenecks, then topnecks. Above that are the cherrystones, and the largest are called quahogs or chowder clams."
7 comments:
What a neat photo!
What a big clam and very beautiful
OK collected some of the shells to have as soap dishes. They were at least 10 cm across (that is 4 inches).
I always try to get latin accepted, then you´ll have Quercus, (oak) and other alternatives. Must be easier in spanish, just write QUE ? and be done with it.
Ha, if you can get Latin accepted in Scrabble, then why not Chinese, Spanish and Urdu too? :) Good luck with that, EH!
English actually have quite a quantum quota of quiet quotes. Swedish has just one word I think: qvagga - a dead kind of zebra. Once I saw a mole-eaten stuffed qvagga at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm, it looked so lonely. It was probably one of last ones of its species. Sad.
I wonder if they have scrabble in China?
No luck here regarding other languages but swedish, but you can always try!
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