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I thought a marmeluke was some sort of giant sea creature, but it seems I'm wrong.

My suspicion is that your marmeluke is just a variant/misspelling of mameluke/Mamluk, who were a kind of Egyptian janissary (if we accept the notion that janissaries were a kind of Turkish mameluke). Or am I wrong?

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You are right - but not writing ;-)

I was sure when I was a kid I read Uncle Lubin, and there was a huge sea monster called a marmeluke or mameluke or something similar.

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Or a Jarnissary - being a Janissary whose family originally hailed from the Home Counties?

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...or a jamissary, being the (acceptable-to-

bugshaws) Turkish equivalent of the Egyptian marmalade?

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:-)

As long as it's not Turkish Delight. That stuff's like eating rose-flavoured Pritt Stick. But that is a poll for another day...

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Um. Have you had the good stuff, the real thing? I hated all English iterations, but the true Turkish confection I adore. I am, however, trying to adjust myself to the notion that there can be two legitimate points of view, my own and other people's (as, for example, in the matter of marmalade, which again I used to hate but now adore; and yet am not even arguing the point with you, let alone just telling you how wrong you are. Which is wonderfully forbearing of me, in light of my normal behaviours).

Oh, and I am too writing. Just flicking to LJ between paragraphs, because I have a wonderfully unfocused process. If I had two sets of typing hands, I could truly multitask...

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I thought a Janissary was a breeding centre for janises.

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