2932: Spring Cleaning: Topics that Didn’t Make it 2024 Dec 31, 2024

Please enjoy, as a means to wrap up 2024, this collection of draft ideas, none of which were individually long enough to make into a full post or were too similar to existing ones…

•Peaches and nectarines are botanically the same and the names only reflect a commercial difference. The split in the names is quite old, however, from some time in the mid 17th century.

•There are emoji fonts, with different platforms having their own version of the same icons.

•Bread used to have a generic use as anything baked. This includes cookies like gingerbread and shortbread. 

•Likewise, ‘peppermint’ was named as ‘pepper’ was just a generic term for a spice. You can read more about how ‘pepper’ became applied to so many varied species.

•The Bic brand, also known in the UK as Biro, each take the names from the inventor, László Bíró, and the manufacturer’s founder, Marcel Bich, who dropped the -H- from the company’s name to avoid its similarity to English profanity.