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Something Rhymes with Purple

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Cabbage, brockoly and coal slaw are all related to cabbage. Most of them go back to that latin caulis meaning a stem or stalk. It's actually what it means as it's got lots of bumps, i e florits coming out of it. And from there you can take it back to an ancient root, which meant pretty much the same thing. The first bit is related to projecting bumps. So if you think about brocade embroidered on a coat, for example, you've got lots of lovely, sort of little bumps of golden thread,. For international purple people we do have a few.

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