nutmeg
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Eileen Opiolka
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nutmeg
Today's frowsty set me travelling through etymologies and the word nutmeg caught my attention.
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Slava
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Re: nutmeg
Nutmeg itself sent me on a bit of a tour, which led me to this from Etymonline:
I also learned that nutmeg is related to muscat, which itself is not related to Muscat.
I never knew that.American English colloquial wooden nutmeg "anything false or fraudulent" is from 1827; Connecticut is called the Nutmeg State "in allusion to the story that wooden nutmegs are there manufactured for exportation." [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
I also learned that nutmeg is related to muscat, which itself is not related to Muscat.
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