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by Tagbert 620 days ago
It’s OK. Unless people are very familiar with those fruits a lot of native English speakers will mix them up focusing on the “quat” part of the name which is odd in English.
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I'd venture to guess that many native speakers neither know what a kumquat or loquat is.

Being born somewhere usually confers a decent vocabulary, but rare things are rare in any case.