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warriorsavant ([personal profile] warriorsavant) wrote in [personal profile] elainegrey 2020-02-15 03:46 pm (UTC)

Interesting. Like much of English, the simpler words are from the Germanic roots (I guess before German began its fascination with polysyllabic concretions).

Maple I think of as New World (heck, it's leaf is the national emblem of Canada, what with there being no such thing as a hockey stick tree).

I didn't know about the confusion about sycamore.

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