But what about rustle? Hmm. The OED suggests it originally meant the speed of movement rather than all the little noises, and there are the meanings of cattle rustling, and maybe it comes from something like "roust" as in "roust out" over and over. How utterly cool.
All I can offer in return is that duckbilled platypodes have little things in their beaks that can find the shrimp they eat by detecting the electrical impulses given off by the shrimps' nervous systems. Oh, and there are bacteria in uranium mines related to the deep sea vent bacteria but living on uranium. And the German for bags of mixed nuts and raisins is "studentenfodder".
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Date: 2002-12-17 05:19 am (UTC)But what about rustle? Hmm. The OED suggests it originally meant the speed of movement rather than all the little noises, and there are the meanings of cattle rustling, and maybe it comes from something like "roust" as in "roust out" over and over. How utterly cool.
All I can offer in return is that duckbilled platypodes have little things in their beaks that can find the shrimp they eat by detecting the electrical impulses given off by the shrimps' nervous systems. Oh, and there are bacteria in uranium mines related to the deep sea vent bacteria but living on uranium. And the German for bags of mixed nuts and raisins is "studentenfodder".