Date:  Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:27:45 -0800

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: helicopter seeds



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!