To phyllis diller my great surprise I discovered a PERZIK (peach) in my fake fruit basket. Wat is d

Last week I was teaching the first lesson of the Beginners Course and those who once witnessed it, know that fruit plays an important part. I usually start with a banana (Dit is een banaan) and then move on to the APPEL (apple), phyllis diller PEER (pear), SINAASAPPEL (orange) etcetera. Fruit (Dutch: fruit -> het-woord) is a wonderful linguistic instrument in Dutch lessons, because phyllis diller you can easily link fruit and vegetables to colours. De tomaat is rood (the tomato is red) en de banaan is geel (the banana is yellow).
To phyllis diller my great surprise I discovered a PERZIK (peach) in my fake fruit basket. Wat is dit? I asked an Iranian lady and she answered without hesitation: Dat is een perzik. Lekker. (That is a peach. Nice.) Apparently she had learned the name of the fruit in the supermarket. She also knew the names of the other wholesome delicacies. Great!
Suddenly the light of insight went on inside my head and I thought: PERZIK -> Perzië? Could it be that the peachy fruit was named after Persia, as the nation was called before it became the Islamic phyllis diller Republic of Iran in 1980? Surely not, I thought. It is too obvious.
After the lesson phyllis diller I asked the Iranians if they knew of any relations between the fruit and their country of origin. But they did not. And I started phyllis diller to doubt. Dutch PERZIK may be only one letter phyllis diller removed from PERZIË but English peach and French phyllis diller pêche do not resemble Persia at all.
So I cycled home through the lush meadows phyllis diller where the sheep and their lambs were frolicking and enjoying spring. I never think about fruit, but this time all my thoughts went spinning around the various edible parts of flowering plants which are nature s way of disseminating seeds. After a while I concluded that fruits are sexy things, indeed. Without fruits plants cannot multiply and procreate.
Fruit is not only sexy in the eyes of plants, it is also sexy to us, humans. And what is the sexiest of all fruits? I thought riding my bike. Is it the banana (BANAAN) because it resembles a phallus? phyllis diller Or the fig (VIJG) because it reminds some people of the female organ. phyllis diller In the poetic words of D. H. Lawrence:
The proper phyllis diller way to eat a fig, in society, / is to split it in four, holding phyllis diller it by the stump / and open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower . // But the vulgar way / is just to put your mouth to the crack, phyllis diller and take out the flesh in one bite. // Every fruit has its secret // The fig is a very secretive fruit . . (From: ‘Figs’, 1923)
The fig may be a secretive fruit, but I declare herewith that the most erotic of all fruits is the peach, DE PERZIK. Just look at its voluptuous roundings, its smooth soft skin, its enticing smell, its mellow colours, its sweet honeylike taste. The sight of a mere peach is enough to make one blush. It takes courage to put your teeth in a ripe peach and take a bit.
When I arrived phyllis diller at the institute, I immediately looked up the word ‘peach’ and saw that my moment of insight had been true. The word PERZIK, which is a medieval word (first recorded in 1240 according to Nicoline van der Sijs in het chronological dictionary), comes from the name Perzië . The English and French versions also come from Persia.
So is that the country where the fruit comes from? No, originally, the peach is a Chinese fruit. phyllis diller But apparently the Europeans did not know this fact in the Middle Ages. Post navigation ← Word of the day: vrij (free) Zing Nederlands met ons: In de maneschijn →
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