[PW] Re: Meaning of peca

[John P. Dyson]

For what it's worth, peca is one of the names of a fair-sized edible 
rodent in Central America more often referred to by its indigenous name 
of tepescuintle. It is closely related to the agouti and the guinea 
pig. Why Nicaragua would have sent any of them up here in the 1930s is 
anybody's guess, but por si acaso (just in case)....

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University
(Kentucky Fried Tepescuintle? Tastes just like...)


Quoting Jack Bowman <jack-bowman at verizon.net>:

> Folks,
>
> Context: a document on Nicaraguan exports to the US in the 1930s. Source
> text is a report by the US legation in Managua at the time. Author of
> the report says that about a tenth of Nicaragua's exports to the US in
> 1934 consisted of "balsam, 'peca and hides".  Note the inverted comma
> before peca, indicating that the word is a contraction.
>
> Can anyone even guess what 'peca might be?
>
> Thanks,
> JB
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