[jbovlaste] Re: kunkemgerplucpi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 26 November 2010 09:57:35 Zefram wrote:
> Michael Turniansky wrote:
> >>   I'm guessing, knowing my etymology, that a gerplucpi is a canary.  But
> >
> >what the heck is a mineral canary?
>
> Mining canary?  As used to detect low oxygen levels?

Yes. But sometimes one is called "the canary in the coal mine" when one is 
neither a literal canary nor in a literal mine.

Pierre
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