Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Maybe! Who knows what those crazy British were thinking. At least a pineapple is a fruit, and I can easily believe that the namers had never seen anything but crude drawings of a pineapple tree, and not having experience with palm trees, thought they looked most like pines.

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Or, maybe it’s derived from some misinterpretation of a Greek word, or something. English is a hodge-podge language of borrowed words.

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