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I work with a team of people from all over the world , and the word “eggplant” came up the other day. They asked me why Americans call an “aubergine” an “eggplant.”
So I showed them a photo of an unripe eggplant:
Americans really do label things like cave men just saying the most simple words to describe something:
I’m all out of example but I’m sure there are more like this and I like it.
It’s not unique to Americans. A lot of cultures use compound words to describe new things