OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

[Mark Wieder]

Andre-

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 1:45:57 PM, you wrote:

> Now, if I understand correctly from my small  english language experience,
> you name fruits like this:

> if it is really small or has little seeds all over it, then, it is named
> somethingberry

I find it quite disturbing to find that botanically there are two
types of non-stone fruit: drupes and berries; and that most things
that are commonly named berries in English (blackberries,
strawberries, etc.) are actually drupes, while the class of berries
includes such things as avocados and pumpkins, which I never think of
as berries. Basically, in English almost any fruit with the word
"berry" in it is not a berry, but a drupe. And almost all other fruit
is a berry.

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-Mark Wieder
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