Good day,
I am a bit puzzled by the abbreviation "ting" for whiting. I can understand things like gummies and reds and kingies and pinkies but we wouldn't call gurnard "nard", or sturgeon "geon", or salmon "mon", or luderick "rick", so why "ting"? It sounds a bit like an abbreviation just for the sake of having an abbreviation.
Why "ting"?
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Bayrock
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Re: Why "ting"?
Dunno.. I think it kind of suits them? dainty feisty little fish, "ting" just sounds right for them
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Lightningx
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Lightningx
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Re: Why "ting"?
I heard him mention that in an episode of oz fish tv. Kids day.Trumpeter wrote:Perhaps Rex Hunt started it with his Chinese fish, the "Wi -Ting"
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skouta
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Re: Why "ting"?
Sign of the times.... Everyone seems too busy to say full words these days... it appears everything is abbreviated....
"I only caught one - the rest surrendered"
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Lightningx
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Re: Why "ting"?
That’s very true!skouta wrote:Sign of the times.... Everyone seems too busy to say full words these days... it appears everything is abbreviated....