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I was suspecting we were going down the path of words referring to land based mammals. But @Myr is far more inclusive than that and now we are venturing into deep water. 

Other than being the base for that Zodiac sign Pisces, in English it is fish. Now fish is one of those few English words which as a noun is both singular and plural. Of course it is also a verb for something fish don't like. Fishes rather than being a simple plural describes a collection of different species of fish. Of course the homonym fishers is also something even a collection of species of fish doesn't like. 

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1 hour ago, Paladin said:

I was suspecting we were going down the path of words referring to land based mammals. But @Myr is far more inclusive than that and now we are venturing into deep water. 

Other than being the base for that Zodiac sign Pisces, in English it is fish. Now fish is one of those few English words which as a noun is both singular and plural. Of course it is also a verb for something fish don't like. Fishes rather than being a simple plural describes a collection of different species of fish. Of course the homonym fishers is also something even a collection of species of fish doesn't like. 

Thus whole thing sounds picine to me.

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23 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

Thus whole thing sounds picine to me.

It certainly smells.

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3 minutes ago, Paladin said:

It certainly smells.

I recommend Vick's Salve.

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4 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

I recommend Vick's Salve.

Ouch! According to Google I shouldn't put Vick's Salve anywhere near my nose. Should I not believe Google? :)

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14 minutes ago, Paladin said:

Ouch! According to Google I shouldn't put Vick's Salve anywhere near my nose. Should I not believe Google? :)

In the nose, definitely not.

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25 minutes ago, Paladin said:

Ouch! According to Google I shouldn't put Vick's Salve anywhere near my nose. Should I not believe Google? :)

Place it on your chest and the vapors will mask the other odor.  

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3 minutes ago, Bill W said:

Place it on your chest and the vapors will mask the other odor.  

11 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

In the nose, definitely not.

What about on the picine.

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The first known use of the word piscine as an adjective was in 1670, as written by S. Gott. 

The first known use of piscine as a noun may have been in the 14th century, in the Northumbrian poem Cursor Mundi. 

In the ecclesiastical sense of the word piscine, the variation piscina is used to describe the "stone basin in a church placed close to the altar and used to receive the water in which the priest washed his hands before the celebration of the eucharist" and comes from late 15c. 

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18 minutes ago, Paladin said:

What about on the picine.

I have no idea what you mean by picine, but if you mean piscine and want to put it on your fish, that's probably not a good idea either. 

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21 minutes ago, Paladin said:

What about on the picine.

You may apply liberally, but don't eat it afterwards.

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3 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

You may apply liberally, but don't eat it afterwards.

If a liberal application was necessary I doubt it would have been palatable anyway 🤮

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I recall countless times as  a child when Mentholatum and VVR were applied in and around my nose when I had congestion. It hasn't killed me yet. But I'd be careful using these products around children.

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