Plout = Purple Lipped Trout
Posted on | October 6, 2005 | 7 Comments
It appears that in my last post I called the delightful plumy apricot concoction my son loves so much a plout. Blackbird kindly clarified that a plout is in fact a Purple Lipped Trout. (You will have to ask her how she knew this amazing information!)
It seems that our small family has developed its own vernacular. Both DH and I are glib and silly when it comes to words. We make words fit, where no words do. Things have names in our house that we give them carelessly, in scattered moments when the right name wont come, and for some reason, they stick.
Such was the case with the plouts. We started by calling them ploots. Then, realizing there was a “uo” in the spelling, we began calling them plouts, recklessly without noticing the “uo” spelling. We sang many a rendition of “plout, plout, let it all out, these are the plouts we are talking about, come-on!” You get the idea. (Bean of course, thinks we are hysterical and rewards us with the most exquisite peals of laughter we’ll do just about anything to get more.)
Interestingly when I was looking for links about pluots so that the general blogosphere could be informed, I googled “plout” and was perturbed to come up with a whopping 59,700 searches including that word—but most of them unfortunately, a) had nothing to do with the fruit in question, b) were written in a foreign language, or c) were fan sites for the Greek biographer Plutarch.
Incidentally, when PLUOT is correctly googled, it procures only 39,000 searches, most of them actually having to do with said fruit.
The funny thing is, not one search for PLOUT led me to the amazing PURPLE LIPPED TROUT, so I was forced to go obscure reefs with my watercolors and brushes to procure a specimen.
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October 7th, 2005 @ 2:36 am
I make YOU laugh?! YOU slay me! You painted the infamous purple-lipped trout! bwahahaha! That is one resigned looking trout! Probably longing for a pluot! *giggles madly*
October 7th, 2005 @ 9:39 am
i love your plout! the detail is amazing and the colors are perfect! who ever would have imagined there is actually such thing as a purple lipped trout . . . a plout sounds so dr. seuss to me.
October 7th, 2005 @ 11:20 am
I don’t think the Tuvalan Plout has EVER inspired such a strikingly handsome, beautiful and detailed, provacative and accurate portrait.
BRAVO TO YOU.
I am quite impressed.
now…see…pluots I have heard of.
October 7th, 2005 @ 12:02 pm
Hmm. I still think you’re making the whole thing up…
Beautiful picture. Will you come be my artist in residence?
October 7th, 2005 @ 7:12 pm
We have fun with words around here as well… mostly at my expense. You see, I don’t actually read words; I simply skim them and make them be what I think they are. Therefore I mispronounce a great many of them or purposefully mumble over them, much to my semantics-whore husbands joy.
And your Plout is pensive and beautiful and I want to build her a pond.
Swim pretty purple lipped plout! Swim!
October 8th, 2005 @ 8:51 am
And she swam and she swam all over the dam.
October 8th, 2005 @ 2:43 pm
i had no idea a plout was so beautiful
although she looks a bit sad that she isn’t in fact a red or pink lipped trout…