Re: [GWL]: Usage and terminology

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Usage and terminology
• From: "Lon J. Rombough" lonrom@hevanet.com>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:50:30 -0800
• List-archive: <http://topica.com/lists/Gardenwriters/read>

This is also the basis for the term "Pippin" as in Cox's Orange Pippin. 
That is, a pippin is a seedling, in British terminology.
-Lon
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>From: Joe Seals <gardenguru@yahoo.com>
>To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
>Subject: Re: [GWL]: Usage and terminology
>Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 8:28 AM
>

>According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American
>English (1993), a seed is sometimes called "kernel,
>pip, pit, stone..."... "All are Standard American
>except pip, which is British English".
>
>Joe
>
>--- FRIELSTER@aol.com wrote:
>> So what was A. Conan Doyle referring to with his
>> title, "The Four Orange 
>> Pips"?  (or was it seven...?)
>> 
>

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