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Something Rhymes with Purple

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What's the Difference Between Strawberries and Rubab?

The word strawberry, where is that come? O? Sine with straw and berry, i spoon. We have absolutely no idea whe comes from. No one knows what the rast bit means. Plums, bab anything in te sa the i don't know how you feel about plums. It goes back to an old english borrowing from lots of germanic languages. Rubab is a lovely one, because we have talked about the distrust of foreigners which has been exemplified in English for centuries. Any one who was foreign was considered a barbarian and therefore the enemy. And rhubarb actually is the foreign fruit. The romans decided to call it a foreign fruit because

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