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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is a bit of a mouthful and that last part is pronounced "wilks-bear-ee", but how can you not like a team called the Red Barons?
good vibes please booraven22 2006
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The rocks at the seashore, among which I had gathered wilks (whelks) seemed to have vanished, and a tame flat shoal remained.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920
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We remained at this place till the end of August, our refreshments being very small, consisting only of oysters, growing on the rocks, great wilks, or conchs, and a few fish, which we took with hooks and lines.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Of other shell-fish there are ten or twelve sorts, such as periwinkles, wilks, limpets, and some very beautiful sea-ears, also another sort which stick to the weeds; with some other things, as sea-eggs, star-fish, &c. several of which are peculiar to the place.
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The smaller sorts are some _trochi_ of two species, a curious _murex_, rugged wilks, and a snail, all which are, probably, peculiar to this place, at least I do not recollect to have seen them in any country near the same latitude in either hemisphere.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
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Of shellfish, here were oysters both of the common kind for eating, and of the pearl kind: and also wilks, conches, mussels, limpets, periwinkles, etc., and I gathered a few strange shells; chiefly a sort not large, and thick-set all about with rays or spikes growing in rows.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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