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17-09-2011, 08:09 PM
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| | | Old name for ant.
Doing a crossword today and the clue was ..old name for ant.
I finally got the answer but I wonder how many others have heard of it. My husband and I certainly haven't.
Answer to follow for those that don't know  |
17-09-2011, 08:12 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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Emmet? |
17-09-2011, 08:14 PM
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| | | Re: Old name for ant.
Emmit? My grandad used to called them that....
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17-09-2011, 08:17 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northants
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Aww. Come on guys. I thought this was hard. Well it was for me and I have learnt something new today even if you haven't 
Emmet it is. |
17-09-2011, 08:20 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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You know where to come to when those difficult clues pop up again!  |
17-09-2011, 08:22 PM
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Emmet, eh... there was me thinking that was a neighbour in Keeping Up Appearances! |
17-09-2011, 08:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wye Valley, Mid-Wales
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It's also an unflattering Cornish name for a tourist, because they swarm everyway like ants. |
17-09-2011, 10:13 PM
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Glad I didn't say pismire, how silly would I look?
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18-09-2011, 07:50 AM
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Two too many letters in pismire - it wouldn't fit! |
18-09-2011, 11:31 AM
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| | | Re: Old name for ant.
That's new to me too... but in Australia, the aboriginal word for tourists (particularly at Uluru) is mingas - meaning ants. Tourists look the same everywhere, I guess... | | | |
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