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All this chat about pineapple reminds me of my first (well, first at secondary school) Latin teacher.
He used the phrase "Pineapple chunks give me the bellyache" as a tool for teaching grammar.
Thanks, Mr Evans. I learned so much about language from you.
well yeah of course they do: Ανανάς ο εύκομος
@jay_peper That's Greek, I'd have thought?
@neil the language of the Romans (if you ask the right kind of Romans) at the time the ananas came over.
@jay_peper Ooh, interesting.
@neil one if my pet peeves and also probably obnoxious obsessions about how large parts of the Roman Empire were managed in Greek.
@neil the Romans had a word for pineapple?