Word: mussel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another thing can be done by the public and the fisheries?learn. Ignorance excludes many a worth-some sea creature from the common diet. Gunners, sea mussel, goosefish, shark, skates, rays, tilefish, sea robins, black drums?all are waiting to be introduced to the U. S. fish knife...
...Mussel vs. Muscle...
...have supposed that the shoals in the Tennessee River, so much in evidence lately, got its name originally from the fresh water bivalves found there; perhaps TIME can explain why it is called Muscle Shoals? Is it because somebody did not know how to spell mussel? The relation between shoals and mussels is obvious enough, but my ignorance fails to discern any connotation between shoals and muscles...
Muscle Shoals (as explained in TIME, Dec. 29, SCIENCE) was so named because at that point is found the greatest collection of fresh water mussels or Naiades (80 species and 29 genera) anywhere in the world. In regard to the spelling, Gerard H. Matthes of Manhattan, in a recent letter to Science, weekly organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, pointed out that in writings of half a century ago and earlier, it was stated that the name was given because of the "muscle shells" (sic) found there. "Muscle" seems to have been the original form...
...That it should be spelled Mussel Shoals instead of Muscle Shoals because it derives its name from the many kinds of fresh-water mussels (Naiades) found there...