SC - Re: pigeon peas
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 28 12:08:55 PST 2000
Vincent Cuenca wrote:
> The Spanish name is gandules; the Latin name is
> >Cajanus cajan.
>
> Odd linguistic footnote: "gandul" in Spanish also means a lazy person. I
> wonder where this came from? Any thoughts?
>
A person who shows about as much initiative as a beanie baby? <grin, duck, run>
Apropos of metaphors for laziness, here's one I learned as a song title. "Donal na
Grainne" meaning Donal of the Sun. No, that's not a claim of extra-terrestrial origin,
apparently lazy Don is sleeping in the sun instead of working. He's probably supposed to
be planting pigeon peas [she said, steering back on topic].
Selene
> Vicente
> (reading way too much about food as a tool for drawing class distinctions)
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