[Cob] Tung oil NOT tongue oil

[Charmaine Taylor]

Hi I just can't let this one go by again. It is not toungue oil, but Tung oil.
no matter that it is used on wood tongues.

a simple farmer in the 1800s may have confused the term by phonetics.

http://www.sutherlandwelles.com/tungoil.htm  < history of tung oil

I should be groggy from too much tryptophan in the turkey, but my inner ENGLISH
TEACHER had to resspond. : )

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Bill&Julie wrote:

>    The Term Toungue Oil,,, is for a product used for Wagon Toungues,,,  It
> was
> use to protect the wood from the corrosives that would collect on the
> toungue due to the close proximity to the rear of the draft animal...
> phewwy.
>
> ô¿ô  bill
>