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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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as they couldn’t pronounce the Dutch word

I mean I can’t blame them, the language’s phonosyntactics are very different from French, it’s hard to pronounce in general and sounds awful to boot.

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Donut@leminal.space
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It’s funny how Dutch doesn’t shy away from loaning French words, despite the difference. Examples are chauffeur, etalage, cadeau, auto and medaille.

I don’t agree that aardappel is hard to pronounce in general if you’re an English speaker though. Check it out: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/aardappel

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Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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Alternative forms

Eerdappel […] (obsolete)

As Arnhemmer, I don’t completely agree.

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