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March 8, 2015
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I live pretty much down town very close to St Clair West Station. Heh Heh, If this all comes to pass hubby will find it…
Hahahaha! Well, we could invent a past connection… I *am* a writer, or trying to be, after all! :P Besides, I’d be hypothetically promoting my real (gay) book, lol! We could just… concentrate on that! :P
"Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed"
God the...
"Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed"
God the last one, I can’t
The "Pineapple" Mystery
Dear world: I have solved one of the eternal mysteries of the English language today.
You know all of those arguments - like in this famous post - that discuss the bizarre and pointless-seeming etymology of the word “pineapple”?
So I always used to think that the first English speaker who saw one of those bad boys thought, “oh, it’s a fruit and it’s prickly to the touch, so like an apple, but covered in pine needles. I shall dub it a ‘pine-apple’!”
But then, while hanging out with some francophone friends (I live in a French-speaking city), someone said the word for a pine cone in French. It’s “pomme de pin”. PINE APPLE.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. You’re welcome.
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