Moonpie is not a fan of CUNY/SUNY having started up again

[conuly]

and every day when E leaves she bolts up to my room and burrows under my covers for a few hours until she feels prepared to cope with the day.

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Comments

[redbird]

Thanks for the article about arugula/rocket. It makes sense that "arugula" got into US English via New York City produce markets, and a food writer who wanted his readers to be able to find the vegetable when they went shopping.

I wonder if/how this connects to the pattern in which UK English uses French names, and the US uses either English or Italian ones: our zucchini is their courgette, and our snow peas are their mange toute.

[calimac]

I've heard of arugula (though I don't care to eat it), but I had not known of a green called 'rocket'.

[siliconshaman]

I think it more reflects how many French refugees we got during the Napoleonic era. Most of the French Aristocracy decamped to England during The Terror, not so many went any further.

[siliconshaman]

Years and years ago, I visited a perfumery in the South of France, one of the famous ones. (not by choice, me and Dad were out voted by mum and my little sister.)

Turns out, they had a museum that was reconstructing ancient scents using gas chromatography, and I ended up having a fascinating time discussing it with their head chemist who was doubling up as tour guide that day.

Much to the annoyance of my little sister, who wasn't into science.

Turns out, we know more about Roman to late Medieval scents than we do later ones, because they switched from using glazed pottery jars to glass when it became more available, and the pottery preserves aromatic organic compounds better as they soak into the unglazed interiors while the exterior glaze traps them.