India ink replaced scuttle-fish ink as Greenland's printing ink when trade routes opened up with England that summer.
Webster's dictionary defines 'scuttlefish' - isn't that special?
The ancient sea boat's trunk washed ashore nearly empty; containing only half the map, a half-dozen tallow candles, and a scuttle-fish carcass.
"You're nothing but a lousy scuttlefish, like Mom always said you was."
"Squids are such bullies, flaunting their superior size, bragging that their ink is the best," he said, "I really do despise them."
They're in my dreams every night, and I see them everywhere I go.
And as the scuttlefish's inky effluvium spread around him, Boris the flounder hoped the shark wouldn't notice him.
When she blew, she blew clouds and everybody was impressed.
