The words for ‘pineapple’ and ‘butterfly’ have a little thing in common in English – and a striking difference in other languages. Read about it in my latest article for TheWeek.com:
The curious linguistic history of pineapples and butterflies
The words for ‘pineapple’ and ‘butterfly’ have a little thing in common in English – and a striking difference in other languages. Read about it in my latest article for TheWeek.com:
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Can you tell us anything about the words for “pineapple” in, say, American dialects? Your article gives the (I’m sure unintended) impression that “people” = Europeans — “everyone” uses the same word for “pineapple” because it’s new, whereas butterflies have been around “since before there were even people”.