San Juan Teperico

[David L. Frye]

Actually, it IS a coincidence -- or rather, it is one of the many "obvious
metaphors" out there. "Hueso" as "stone, pit" is just plain old Spanish,
not Mexican Spanish. (I am also reminded of the verse, I think it was from
Corinthians, which Dostoevsky used as an epigraph to the Brothers
Karamazov, to the effect that "what you sow does not live unless it first
dies.")

David Frye <dfrye at umich.edu>

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, John Sullivan Hendricks wrote:

> Regarding fertile bones, its no coincidence that in Mexican Spanish fruit
> pits (avocado, peach, etc.) are called "huesos", "bones".  I picked up th=
is
> observation from Angel Garc=EDa Zambrano.