Timeline for "Scampi" in American English?
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 7:51 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @PeterShor -- They look like crawdads to me, but if you are findin' 'em in salt water, I guess they ain't. My next guess'd be Nephrops norvegicus, or somethin'. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Malvolio: them ain't crawdads. Crawdads are freshwater critters, and those guys live in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic near Europe. We don't have them in the U.S., which is why Americans don't know the name for them. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 11:49 | answer | added | Terje Dørumsgaard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | Them is crawdads. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 4:33 | vote | accept | 719016 | ||
| Jul 25, 2011 at 16:46 | comment | added | Marthaª | Them things have claws. Them things ain't shrimp. But they do look yummy. | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 21:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/95245552530374656 | ||
| Jul 24, 2011 at 19:16 | history | edited | user2683 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2011 at 19:08 | answer | added | bye | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 19:05 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Dang! In the UK that would be "monster ginormous scampi"! | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 18:44 | comment | added | aedia λ | Check out Wikipedia on shrimp or a definition of scampi. I have not heard "scampi" alone, but rather "shrimp scampi," in the US to refer to shrimp prepared a certain way, regardless of what kind of shrimp. | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 18:29 | history | asked | 719016 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |