pomophobe

[victor steinbok]

Fear of tomatoes? [It honestly never occurred to me until now that
"pomodoro"--which was also adopted into Russian as [pomidor]--is "pomo
d'oro".]

Or fear of fruit? [Note: pomology, pomonic, pomonal--and, of course,
Pomona!]

VS-)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> See, an apple in Latin is "pomum."  It's kind of a play on words.
>
> But the ancients didn't have potatoes, so I don't see how they could have
> been afraid of them.
>
> Except perhaps in dreams....
>
> JL

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