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". :-) -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list