Well, it's a fruit as in "the fruit of the olive tree" but then chestnuts would be fruit as well.
Im talking about fruit as in the food class (like vegetables, dairy products etc.), not a specific object. One of the rare cases where German has two separate words (Obst and Frucht) where English only has one...
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Date: 2003-06-02 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-02 05:55 am (UTC)The Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries disagree with you, incidentally.
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Date: 2003-06-02 10:02 am (UTC)Im talking about fruit as in the food class (like vegetables, dairy products etc.), not a specific object.
One of the rare cases where German has two separate words (Obst and Frucht) where English only has one...
Wuh?
Date: 2003-06-06 11:23 am (UTC)Lensman ;-)