Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site boulder.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!richard
From: richard@boulder.UUCP (Richard Byrd)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: GRAPEfruit?
Message-ID: <333@boulder.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:06:55 EST
Article-I.D.: boulder.333
Posted: Fri Mar 22 12:06:55 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 05:32:58 EST
References: <ISM780.179>
Reply-To: richard@boulder.UUCP
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 7
Summary: 


Some folks have been disparaging the "bunch of grapes" etymology on the
grounds that they have seen grapefruit growing singly. 
However the ones I have seen (in Texas) grow in well defined bunches
of about 6 fruit. The visual effect is similar to a bunch of grapes
and that etymology seems reasonable to me.
Perhaps this property varies among varieties of the fruit.