Friday, June 13, 2008

do you know what a piece of iceberg is called?

a bergy bit! geography textbooks are the best.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i can only picture a British geographer saying that. "right, just gonna pop down to the ol' bergy bit"

sarah said...

yes! i will try to ascertain the etymology of "bergy bit." but in the meantime, i'm totally confident asserting that the term originated with the brits. for sure.

Anonymous said...

New from Procter and Gamble the makers of Bacon Bits, Burgy Bits. P&G like to call them big ol ice cubes but geographers frowned on that.

sarah said...

bergy bits! yes! can we just call ice cubes that from now on?