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Heading in Cyprus North News section: In January, Prices Rise for Passports and Grenades, While Pumpkins Got Cheaper in Northern Cyprus. Naturally speculation among foreigners here as to where grenades might be purchased and what use they might be put to. Plausible suggestion that pomegranates are probably what was meant, but correction not issued. The Turkish for pomegranate is nar, although that really isn’t relevant if the writer was trying to remember the English for nar and only got as far as grenade.
Or more probably was assisted by a helpful predictive text. Predictive text always seems like a bright but very young child trying wildly to be helpful. Yesterday I wrote “in the lee of the building” and discovered that PT had proudly remembered that Lee was a proper name and helpfully capitalised it. Blame all proofreading failures on PT.
The pumpkin which apparently got cheaper is probably a large yellow winter squash rather than a Halloween special. Frequently in grocery stores and some of them are enormous. The phrase is “took two of us to carry it home” but actually you just have them cut off a length a foot or so long.
Endless caterwauling tonight (from the 1300’s, referring to sounds made by cats on the prowl for a mate). Sounds no farther away than the patio. What is the gestation period for cats?
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