Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:49:22 -0500

From: Gregory Roberts robertsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUSUN.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Re: helicopter seeds



On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Anton Sherwood wrote:



Dave Britain writes:

When I was a boy in East Anglia, 'helicopter' was the name given to a

sycamore seed...



Where I grew up, sycamore seeds (or seed pods, rather) look nothing

like helicopters. That's a dialect difference and then some!



It is not that the seeds look like helicopters, it is that when they

fall, they spin like a helicopter blade.

-Greg Roberts