[lit-ideas] Re: Eliot (and Oregon as Suburb)
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:44:22 -0700
The fruit "currently-known-as-Kiwi" used to be
"the-fruit-once-known-as-Chinese-Gooseberries".
when New Zealand farmers wanted to sell these in the USA, they did market
research and found
that Americans wouldn't eat anything called a "Chinese Goose Berry".
so it was renamed Kiwi, which has pleasant associations for Americans (Kiwi
birds are used
to make shoe polish).
so renaming Filbert to Hazelnut? no problem.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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