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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 24 days ago

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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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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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 24 days ago

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The Swabian word Grombira comes from literally “ground pear”
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  “Grumbern” is the same in parts of Frankonia.

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