What's up with the silent p in raspberry?!
Question: In Connecticut you pronounce the p
Answers: In Connecticut you pronounce the p
I don't see any "z" either.
This word is bogus!
i dont know. i guess they were high when they discovered raspberries
Welcome to the English language my friend, it doesnt make sense but we love it!
"Etymology: 16th century “raspis berry,” origin uncertain.
The Latin name is a poetic reference to Mount Ida in Crete, the birthplace of the raspberry according to Pliny the Elder in the first century AD. The berry’s true origin, however, is uncertain."
Americans are lazy. I can see you blowing a raspberry at me right now.
And why are there two R's when one would do fine?
When I worked in Switzerland I asked what was growing in those lovely yellow fields. They told me "rapeseed."
That is some messed up, violent, awful seed.
Oh, and some weirdos do call them rasp-berries. Let's burn their nose hairs.
Funnpy how thpere are spilent "p's" in lopts of worpds.