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Re: The Fish and Chips

Subject: Re: The Fish and Chips
From: Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:27:46 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
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Dave Proctor wrote:
> 
> "Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au> wrote in message
> 3adec993@news1.idx.com.au">news:3adec993@news1.idx.com.au...
> > The original driver for the train known as The Fish was a man named Heron,
> > so in the Cockney - cum - Australian style of nicknaming his train became
> > known as The Fish.
> 
> Why?
> 
> A "heron" is a bird, not a fish.

The popular view is that  "heron" was corrupted to "herring". However
perhaps it was actually because herons CATCH fish.

Eddie

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