Cob:

[Darel Henman]

Jill,


> Jill hotmail wrote:
> 
> Granted, we all want to build our own house so these are a bit beyond
> what we would do ourselves, BUT look at these photos of what can be
> done. This pise (called pise before the word cob)....

PISE is an abbreviation of "pneumatically installed stabilized earth",
and is not a word that predates cob or adobe.

Anyone can use it if you have the equipment.  This might be the barrier.

Darel