turnip query

[Leanne Riding]

Turnips were one of the few imported crops to survive the summer of 1811 
at Astoria, according to Gabriel Franchère. The others were radishes and 
potatoes. Here is how he describes this in the french edition (my 
apologies for typos as I do not spell well in french):

"Nous avions eu soin d'apporter avec nous sur le Tonquin, des graines de 
légumes de toute espèce; et nous les semâmes dans le mois de Mai. Le 
jardin avait une belle apparence en Aoút; mais quoique ces légumes 
eussent été laisses en terre jusqu'à la fin de Décembre, pas un ne put 
parvenir à maturité, si ce n'est les raves, les navets, et les patates. 
Les navets etaient d'une grosseur prodigieuse; un des plus gros, que 
nous eúmes la curiosité de peser et de mesurer, avait 33-pouces de 
circonfirence, et pesait 15 1/2 livres." (Bibaud ed., p. 175-174)

In English this has been translated into: "We had brought with us from 
New York a variety of garden seeds, which were put in the ground in the 
month of May, 1811, on a rich piece of land laid out for the purpose on 
a sloping ground in front of our establishment. The garden had a fine 
appearance in the month of August; but although the plants were left in 
the ground until December, not one of them came to maturity, with the 
exception of the radishes, the turnips, and the potatoes. The turnips 
grew to a prodigious size; one of the largest we had the curiosity to 
weigh and measure; its circumference was thirty-three inches, its weight 
fifteen and a half pounds." (Huntington ed.)

He continues on to describe crops for the rest of the paragraph.

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- Leanne



vincent yann wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Yes, my excellent 'dictionnaire des canadianismes' has
>'un naveau' for 'un navet'.
>Funny (but unrelated to our CW), whereas 'un navet'
>means 'a turkey (lousy film)' in standard French
>slang, 'un naveau' is apparently 'a moron' in Quebec
>slang.
>
>Cheers, Yann
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