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English discoverers be naming fruit like(sopuli.xyz)

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Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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Meanwhile, in France:

“What’s the roundish thing we eat a lot?”

“Apples?”

“No, the one that grows underground.”

“Dirt apples?”

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shneancy@lemmy.world
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iirc an “apple” in both French and English used to just be any fruit. And over time it shifted to mean just the most common one

and you know the french, always very poetic, of course they’ll call a potato a fruit of dirt

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HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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We call them “dirt beans” in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?

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vonxylofon@lemmy.world
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Erdäpfel!

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Johanno@feddit.org
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Or like we call them “Äräpfl”

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