http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/13/word-of-the-day-fruit/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 01:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/13/word-of-the-day-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-87321 Beadgirl Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:59:11 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54743#comment-87321 My father would occasionally tell us that he had a “fructiferous day.” I’ve never heard anyone else use that word, though, and spellcheck seems to think I’m making it up.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/13/word-of-the-day-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-86975 Gil Crosby Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:01:24 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54743#comment-86975 Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B., once speculated the fruit was a banana and that Eve ate the fruit, threw the peeling on the ground, and Adam then slipped on it too.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/13/word-of-the-day-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-86882 Kevin O'Brien Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:25:19 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54743#comment-86882 “Fruit” is also a word that has a slang meaning which describes what you might call “contrived unreality”. I go into detail about that here – http://thwordinc.blogspot.com/2011/01/fruits-of-fiction-cardinal-newman.html

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/13/word-of-the-day-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-86834 Lou Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:37:02 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54743#comment-86834 I had always heard that the notion that the fruit was an apple arose from a play on the Latin “malum”. Is that notion actually peculiar to English?

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