Tuna ice-cream
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A few weeks ago, the Metro had an article about So Bad So Good's 25 Handy Words That Simply Don't Exist in English.
Other words I have been thinking about recently include "souffle" ("breath" in French), and the fact that paper, hair and God sound the same when you say them in Japanese. I ate Sicilian cactus fruit ice-cream recently and
verticalsun26 told me prickly pears are also called "tuna". I ate tuna!
Other words I have been thinking about recently include "souffle" ("breath" in French), and the fact that paper, hair and God sound the same when you say them in Japanese. I ate Sicilian cactus fruit ice-cream recently and
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Date: 2012-05-31 10:05 pm (UTC)Desire.
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Date: 2012-06-02 07:03 am (UTC)From the Shipwreck Museum in Hastings, I learnt the Dutch word 'kraken'. :)
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Date: 2012-06-05 10:58 am (UTC)And I'd also like to propose one of my favourite Finnish words for inclusion: "avanto" which means the hole in the ice (in a lake or the sea) you make to go swimming in the winter.