Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Jumping Shrimp


Shrimp originated around the 14th century with the Middle English shrimpe, akin to the Middle German schrempen, and meaning to contract or wrinkle; and the Old Norse skorpna, meaning to shrivel up.

"And what to you is the heart of an arthropod, its nature a domain of sand?"

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