• Amazinghorse@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s only a slight difference, but we call the green stuff Kiwifruit and the brown stuff Kiwi. So it breaks the inception chain.

      Americans are advised to use the long form of the fruit name here, to avoid inadvertently asking to eat our endangered national bird.