Talk:Smelt (fish)

message: Am I missing something or is the opening sentence an Oxymoron:
"Smelts – more precisely freshwater smelts or typical smelts ... – are a family of small fish, Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans."
Last I checked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were not "freshwater" bodies of water. Is this just poor wording or am I missing something here???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.107.113.194 (talk) 01:31, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxymoron 

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message: I can not believe that someone added this: Smelts have a characteristic odour, similar to the smell of female reproductive organs. 
Can we please not go there?  Ugh. To be blunt, the person who believes this is true should hot-tail it down to their gynecologist ASAP. Panabode (talk) 10:27, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously it was someone's puerile attempt at humor. Equally obvious, it was a member of my own male gender, so I doubt a gynecological visit will help.  ColmCille (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbelievable 

message: Not a single mention of the West Coast smelt (or ooligan, eulachon, candlefish, etc.) fishery, which has a major history here going back thousands of years and stretching from northern California to Alaska. I grew up dipping and eating smelt every spring in the Cowlitz river (a tributary of the Columbia, and definitely not small enough to straddle). 
See this website for some of the history:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Smelt.htm 
ColmCille (talk) 01:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thaleichthys pacificus is mentioned. I would suggest adding that information to the main article. I'd do it myself, but I'm busy working on Hypomesus transpacificus at the moment.. ManfromButtonwillow (talk) 02:02, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the West Coast? 

message: In my class I am pushing my students to find the roots of names and illusions in Harry Potter.  I had always assumed that Dudley's school, Smeltings, was a reference to melting metal.  A student brought up the fish.  Could this be the actual illusion?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.171.187 (talk) 00:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Dudley's School Smeltings a Reference to the Fish or Melting Metal? 

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message: Maybe, in an effort to be more properly encyclopedic, we could add some information regarding the etymology of the word "smelt." Apparently it comes from a hypothetical proto-Germanic word (with a proto-Indo-European root) meaning "to melt," possibly due to the fish's soft/fatty flesh. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 20:13, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology