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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? (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bit cherry picked, but only a bit, since there are a few languages that just copied the English word later on.
Japanese and Korean come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That actually makes it funnier to me because ananas would be easier to pronounce in Japanese vs pineapple. Ananansu(u is silent) vs Painappuru.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh absolutely!
They just had no ananas exposure beyond that from the Americans.