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