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Old 04-10-2009, 03:19 PM
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Re: Orange berries

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who knows there might be more names for this than the Inuit have for snow
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Well, Geoffrey Grigson lists 98 names (if I have counted right), some of them not to be repeated on a family site. The one I like most is "Kitty-come-down-the lane-jump-up-and-kiss-me", from Kent. Red-hot Poker is listed as a Somerset name.

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