Abstract
This excellent fruit has had an involved and not entirely fortunate nomenclative history. A citrus fruit of the East Indies, it is said to have ?een t::ken from there to the West Indies by a Captain Shaddock, late m the 17th century, and called the shaddock (1696) or pomplemousse (1696) (See Weekley, Etymological Di'ctionary of Modern · Engli'sh, ~921). There is no difficulty thus over the word shaddock, except that it has unhappily dropped out of common usage. There are variant spellings, of course. But pomplemousse, again spelt variously, is given a
:ariety of interpretations, partly because it is an international word and mvolves different languages in its etymology. A. Dauzat, Dictionnai're Etymologique, ( 1938), gives
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Abstract
This excellent fruit has had an involved and not entirely fortunate nomenclative history. A citrus fruit of the East Indies, it is said to have ?een t::ken from there to the West Indies by a Captain Shaddock, late m the 17th century, and called the shaddock (1696) or pomplemousse (1696) (See Weekley, Etymological Di'ctionary of Modern · Engli'sh, ~921). There is no difficulty thus over the word shaddock, except that it has unhappily dropped out of common usage. There are variant spellings, of course. But pomplemousse, again spelt variously, is given a
:ariety of interpretations, partly because it is an international word and mvolves different languages in its etymology. A. Dauzat, Dictionnai're Etymologique, ( 1938), gives
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Subjects | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Journal Section | Makaleler |
| Authors | |
| Publication Date | August 17, 2014 |
| Submission Date | August 17, 2014 |
| Published in Issue | Year 1968 Issue: 9 |