We just hosted a dinner party and someone said, “I wonder where the word raspberry comes from?” I leapt up, shouted, “LET’S FIND OUT” and ran to my study, emerging a moment later with Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary (1883). (This is why I don’t get invited to parties.)
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Those were the days.
The only book i have on the subject is one i appropriately randomly found in an old book store in Ottawa.
And it is... a wacky read.
Much easier to come to your place instead. 😊
from now til forever we shall be calling them
raspisberries
in our best Smeagol voice