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Presumably named a la The Compleat Angler (a book on fishing from 1653). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Angler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co
by QuercusMax 4y ago
Presumably named a la The Compleat Angler (a book on fishing from 1653).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Angler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Angler
- wiredfool 4y agoHe was an Episcopalian and a bait fisherman.
- dotancohen 4y agoI find this interesting because the word "English" literally means "fisherman". The "Eng" is an archaic short form for the word that today we call "angle" - referring to the hook that the fishermen used, with it's distinctive angle. At the time, the people to whom were referred to as such still lived on the northern European continent, they would migrate to the island some time later.