Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Or Chinese Gooseberries, better known by the name thought up by a marketing firm, "kiwi fruit".

And I'm told that there is a language (one of the
Nordic ones, IIRC) where "kiwi" means "stone". So in
that country they wonder why they should be getting so
excited about something called a "stonefruit". :-)

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