Sunday, December 9, 2012

The Only Explanation

origin of the word pineapple ananas

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    1. They also use "ananá".

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    2. Nope, in Spain is only Piña

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    3. in latin america its ananá

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    4. WTF? I'm from latin-america and I had never, never!, hear the word ananá.... PIÑA at least in Chile and near countries

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    5. Idk man, my colombian friends call it ananá and get annoyed when people say piña so...??

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    6. ¿Colombian friends from which part of Colombia? I am from Santander, and there we call it Piña.

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    7. in Argentina we call it ananá. the only time we use the word "piña" is for piña coladas :P

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  2. except it's almost always pronounced "ana-nas," which sounds nothing like "an anus."

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  3. In Brazil, it's called abacaxi (ah-bah-cah-SHEE).

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  4. Does not beat the japanese for corn, "tomorokoshi", spanish is "maiz".

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  5. It's "phoenix-pear" (鳳梨) in Mandarin for some unknown reason......

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    1. That's epic. Sounds like something you'd get from a god after completing 12 mighty tasks

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    2. It's 菠萝 outside of Taiwan.

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  6. In Portuguese-Pt it's Ananas
    In Portuguese-Br it's ABACAXI, no idea why.

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    1. Abacaxi comes from the indigenous Tupí-Guaraní languages.

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  7. In Korean it's pa-in-ae-peul.... Which is pineapple said with a Korean accent.

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  8. In Arabic أناناس ”ananas”

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  9. In indonesia we call it Nanas

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