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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: tuna fish (english horns, actually)
Message-ID: <401@ihu1m.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 09:53:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihu1m.401
Posted: Mon Apr 29 09:53:59 1985
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> In article <451@utai.UUCP> gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) writes:
> >In Australia, we always used to call them Chinese gooseberries,
> >which makes sense as they aren't gooseberries and don't
> >(I understand) originate in China.
> 
> 
> Well, heck, that's OK:  "English horns" are neither horns nor English!
> 
> Any more self-contradictory words?
> 
> Berry Kercheval

The english horn (which looks a lot like an oboe, but sounds a fifth
lower) got its name when the French "cor angle'" (lit: "angled horn"--
the instrument actually had a bend in it, though the modern version
is straight with a curve only in the bocal) was confused with the
near homophone "cor anglais".  As a wind instrument, it certainly
qualifies as a horn in the musical sense.
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