http://languagegeek.net/2007/07/13/putting-the-straw-in-strawberry/ Just blogging about my language geekery. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:35:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://languagegeek.net/2007/07/13/putting-the-straw-in-strawberry/#comment-185 Nils Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:10:14 +0000 http://languagegeek.net/2007/07/13/putting-the-straw-in-strawberry/#comment-185 <p>In both Dutch and German no straw is involved. Roughly re-translated we speak of earth-berries. I suppose it's one of those words that have muddled heritages and etymologies we'll never find out. Just think of butterfly. No butter there. (And in other European languages this creature becomes vlinder, Schmetterling, farfalla, mariposa and papillon. Figure that out.)</p> In both Dutch and German no straw is involved. Roughly re-translated we speak of earth-berries. I suppose it’s one of those words that have muddled heritages and etymologies we’ll never find out. Just think of butterfly. No butter there. (And in other European languages this creature becomes vlinder, Schmetterling, farfalla, mariposa and papillon. Figure that out.)

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