Talk:Lox

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Contents 1 Liquid Oxygen 2 The Name 3 Added an image 4 Is this a US-specific name? 5 Merge with Smoked salmon?

[edit] Liquid Oxygen

Liquid Oxygen is also referred to as "lox" (as I discovered when I worked at Grumman Aerospace and I saw an accident report that there was a lox leak somewhere. 69.228.240.57 03:58, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Name

I have some trouble with the phrasing "Variations on the name are lox (Yiddish), lax (Swedish), laks (Norwegian and Danish) and lachs (German)." Actually, these are the same word that has evolved differently in different Germanic Languages, i.e. true cognates. As the meaning is phrased now, it sounds like German has borrowed the word from Yiddish, when it in fact is a several thousands of years old word for salmon. By the way, Old English had "læx".

[edit] Added an image

hope nobody minds--Sir.Salmon Fish^{The First} 14:28, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a US-specific name?

I'm British and have never heard smoked salmon called "lox" - it's just "smoked salmon" over here. Where else is this term used? 143.252.80.110 14:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

As the article says, it's a yiddish word. So you're more likely to hear it in places with a large jewish community. --BluePlatypus 15:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Ashkenazic Jews and the Sussman family in particular. yonkeltron 11:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Smoked salmon?

Shouldn't this article be merged with "smoked salmon"? They seem to be talking about essentially the same thing. SigPig 23:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)