Dear All, and Art,

Having remembered seeing this explaination, I throw this into the "conch
stew".

http://www.furious.com/perfect/shells.html

"Concerning this antiquity of the use of shell trumpets, the etymologist
Eric Partridge puts forth the idea that the
     word "conch" may be of echoic - that is, onomatopoeic - origin.10
Echoic, I suppose, of the sound of the blast of a
     shell trumpet, and thus - given the early Greek roots of the work
"conch" - indicating the great antiquity of their
     use. A common term applied in a number of parts of Polynesia to the
shell trumpet - pu - would certainly also
     seem, in its own way, to be echoic."

Mariah

PS: GOOD ONE, Art!!!! <Thumbs Up>

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