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English discoverers be naming fruit like (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In Malayalam (I am not a Malayali), we call the sweet-but-juicy spiky yellow fruit chakka or chakkappazham - zh is a unique L sound in the Dravidian language, so it sounds like phalam, means fruit (I think?).

Chakka -> Jaca -> Jack

The stupidest naming I've ever come across, just for the sake of language purity.

this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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