News from Keys Treasures — Conchs

     If you visit the Florida Keys, chances are, you'll hear the word, "conch".  Phonetically speaking, you'll hear konk, and you may wonder just what a conch is.  If your first encounter with the word happens to be reading it in print, you may have mispronounced it and tipped off anyone within earshot that you are definitely not local.  That is, if your clothing, accent, sunburn, or something else didn't tip them off first.  But  I digress....      A conch can be referring to one of two things, the gastropod found in the ocean or the people found...