[Lexicog] Digest Number 463

[Claire Bowern]

I call it the skin.
Claire
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> Message: 1         
>    Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:25:19 -0800
>    From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
> Subject: banana
> 
>>>From a discussion with my wife:
> 
> I know that the outside of an orange is called a "rind" in English. Is there
> a name for the outside of a banana? I know that once the inner edible part
> of a banana is taken out, what is left is called a "peel." Most everyone
> knows how dangerous it is to slip on a banana peel. If a banana has not yet
> been peeled, is the outside of a banana also called a "peel"?
> 
> Wayne
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> Wayne Leman
> Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
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