Haus@kbin.earthtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•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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11 days agoIn Dutch, a potato is called aardappel, which literally translates to “earth apple” (aarde meaning “earth” and appel meaning “apple”).
They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.