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Patricia Davis's avatar

Your father sounds like a treasure! No wonder you love words! Was your sister as influenced by this word+history bug? Had no idea Scotland was a raspberry kingdom! Raspberries are hard to come by here. If you grow them you keep them close! We do have a local farm family that grows fields of strawberries,

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Patricia Davis's avatar

Mission accomplished!

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Patricia Davis's avatar

Sounds absolutely delightful! I hope the Nutella bandits are passing it along.

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Julia Watson's avatar

Two writers.

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Julia Watson's avatar

A regular Thesaurus, my papa. The whole extended family is a garrulous bunch.

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Kate Walker's avatar

WHAT?!?! Blue raspberry is banana and pineapple and cherry? HOW?!?!?

Blue raspberry is my favourite synthetic flavour by a country mile, while fake banana and cherry are right down the bottom of the list. My mind is blown.

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Julia Watson's avatar

Good-oh. Blowing the mind is what Tabled strives to do!

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SIMON BELL's avatar

my father also called them goosegogs!

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Julia Watson's avatar

Did he also have wagger pagger bagger in his lexicon?

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