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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: tuna fish (actually re kiwi fruit)
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 12:02:18 EST
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> A more modern Greenlandism is "kiwi fruit".  Can a New Zealander
> out there tell us what you really call the thing?

I'm no Kiwi, (but I once had a girlfriend who was), but the so-called kiwi
fruit was renamed in New Zealand for base commercial reasons. Its original
English name was "Chinese gooseberry", and it is indeed a native of 
China, not New Zealand. Now, how many Americans know what a gooseberry 
looks/tastes like? (A large sour grape with bristles on it. Delicious in
pies.)

	John Purbrick ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg