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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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[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Counter point:

[–] Unimperfect@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In Castellano (Spanish from Spain), it's called piña.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?

The takeaway here is, the rest of the world uses different words than the continents where it comes from

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Also what I was taught in US Spanish classes.

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