Idk. Raspberry is a good choice though. Would you be able to eat it with other stuff? Would it just be that berry or that and berry flavoured foods. If I chose strawberry could I have something with strawberry in it?
Maybe it's because their surface is very ripped, with very little hairs poking out. Some of their regional names in Europe also link them with bees and bumblebees - you could say they share... "similarities" on their behind ^^'
@@tomhalla426 Oh yes, I know the ones you mean. I actually use rasp files from time to time, and I've got them in my toolbox. I have circular ones, but they have a handle, and it's a constant diameter. I think the rattail ones (which I also have!) are quite a bit thinner, and get thinner towards the ends, They don't really have a handle - it's all file! They are all pretty coarse.
In Spanish, blueberry is called arándano. Cranberry is referred to as arándano rojo. So technically, cranberries are called "red blueberries" in Spanish.
@@a2falcone Idk where are they from but I'm mexican and we call blueberries "mora azul". But anyway both are correct, since it depends on the region I guess.
One of my favourite berry name facts: in Anishinaabemowin (the language of the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe people) the word for ‘berry’ is ‘imin’, but imin also means ‘blueberry’ - so, a blueberry is the true berry and all other berries are a deviation. For example, a ‘strawberry’ is ‘ode’imin’, or ‘heart-berry’, or ‘heart-shaped-blueberry’.
Don't mind me just making a comparison with dutch and english: Berry>Bes Strawberry>Aardbei=Earthberry Gooseberry>Kruisbes=Crossberry Loganberry>Loganbes Huckleberry>Bosbes=Forrestberry Chokeberry>Appelbes=Appleberry Tayberry>Taybes Raspberry>Framboos(From french) Boysenberry>Jongensbes=Boysberry Elderberry>Vlierbes(Dunno what "Vlier" means) Açai Berry>Açai Bes Cranberry>Cranberry(We use the english word) Blackberry>Braam.
Earthberries (strawberries) in other languages: Erdbeere (German), Jordbær (Norwegian), Jordgubb (Swedish) more German Gooseberry: Stachelbeere (Stingberry) Huckleberry: Heidelbeere (Moorberry) Raspberry: Himbeere (unknown meaning) Elderberry: Holunderbeere (Elderberry)/Fliederbeere (Lilacberry) Blackberry: Brombeere (Bromiumberry) So "vlier" seems to be the Dutch word for _lilac._
Funnily enough I read earlier this week that Canadian French has its own word for cranberries but European (and other global) varieties of French are content just to say 'le cranberry'.
I grew up with my grandmother’s dewberry cobbler here in Texas. Decades later I can still taste it. But I never saw dewberries in stores and wondered where they came from. Just a few years ago I visited friends in a town near where my mother’s family’s farm had been and found dewberries along a creek. They are similar to blackberries.
For anyone wondering on the taste dewberries tend to be more tart and it has a lot more seeds than blackberries. But of course I can only speak for the wild variety that grows around where I live.
Blackberries that creep/trail along the ground rather than having upright canes are called dewberries, in the eastern USA at least, presumably because the surface of the ground is also where you expect dew. As with erect blackberries, there are multiple species.
When I was a child we had strawberries growing in the garden. They were covered with black netting supported by low ( 30 inch) posts - that was to keep the birds off. As the berries began to swell they risked dipping down and touching the earth. To prevent them getting splashed with mud they were bedded with straw to keep them from coming in contact with the soil and also to try and deter slugs. Patrick please note that straw is the remnants from a cereal crop ie the hollow stems and dried up leaves. Dried up grass is hay !
According to the Duolingo blog: cranberry was repurposed in North America from the German or Dutch kraanbere ("crane" like the bird, plus "berry")-a different swamp-raised berry!
Back when I used to work tech support for Sprint I loved Blackberry phones. They rarely had technical issues so most BB calls were for activation. That said the activation was pretty much automatic once you put the phone on the account, it just took a while to complete. So it was time to just talk to the customer and relax while the phone did its thing.
2:55 Fun fact: those "seeds" you see on a strawberry aren't actually seeds. And the red fruit we normally associate strawberries with aren't the actual fruit of the plant (they're an accessory fruit)
The "-on" in "lingon" is an old plural form. We also have it in Swedish words like "ögon" ("eyes", sing. "öga") and in various words for different types of fruit. I always thought strawberries were called that because you thread wild strawberries onto literal straws when you pick them. That is, the small, melts-in-your-mouth type of European strawberry that's known as "smultron" here. (Again the "-on"!)
You beat me to it with the strawberry explanation. It makes perfect sense. The name would have stuck even though the hybrids developed later were too big and heavy to thread that way. You left out the fact that 'cranberry' in Swedish, 'tranbär'. is almost a direct translation of 'crane berry'. The SAOB entry for 'tranbär' links to 'tränjon' and the etymology for that ends up referring to 'trana', the bird.
Fun fact, Hackberry's name comes from the word hag (old woman) because sometimes the bark would become rough and wrinkly, which people say it looks like an old hag
You Should do a video about tomatoes being a fruit. People think they're clever when they point this out, but would probably be surprised if you told them that cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, and peas are actually fruits too.
"Raspberry" the sound apparently crossed the Pond right away, as I've heard the term in America all my life. "Açaí" is pronounced "ah-sah-EE". That tail softens the C, and is called a cedilla, which is Spanish for "little Z". Which is ironic, as it's used in Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Provençal, and French-- the languages surrounding Spanish-- but not Spanish itself. It died out in Spain. You should do a video on this!
I love Marionberries. They are the state fruit of Oregon. Technically it’s a type of blackberry, a cross between two popular varieties. Makes great pies and preserves.
Rasp is a tool to grate or remove small bits of wood creating a gritty byproduct. Since raspberry seeds annoyingly get stuck in your teeth, I always imagined the gritty texture influenced the name.
Strawberries are called strawberries for the way they are grown. You plant them with a bed of straw on the ground to absorb extra moisture, which helps to prevent their spoiling. And in German, they're called Erdbeeren, which translates to "earth berries" for how low to the ground they grow.
The term “raspberry” (or “razzberry”) for the oral fart sound is also used in some parts of the US, and thanks to the mass media (old movies and comedy routines), it is understood in areas where it is not commonly spoken. Upon moving from Florida last year to the capital city of Oregon, Salem, which is mostly in Marion County, I learned of a blackberry-raspberry hybrid developed in the county agricultural department named the Marionberry, which is apparently known only in Marion County and the Willamette (rhymes with “dammit”) River Valley. The jam made from them is delicious! Incidentally, there was a former mayor of Washington, DC in the 1970s named Marion Barry, but there is no connection.
You can sometimes find Marionberries elsewhere too - there's a yogurt I get that's made from them - pretty sure it's either Tillamook brand or Brown Cow brand, not sure which off the top of my head...
Update on the “razzberry” sound. In the US it is also called a “Bronx cheer”, after the borough in New York City. Also, good to see that Marionberries are getting exposed outside of Oregon. And I vaguely remember Marion Barry making somewhat of a comeback in the nineties.
The marionberry, popular in Oregon and Washington, is a hybrid of the Chehalem and Ollalie varieties of blackberry. It was developed by the US Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University, and bred and tested in Marion County, Oregon.
That's correct. What people colloquially refer to as the "seeds" are, in fact, _entire_ fruits; *very* teeny tiny fruits. And they're all arranged on the outside of the big red thing that we colloquially refer to as the "fruit", but it is actually an accessory part of the fruits (the teeny little fruits speckling its surface). It even has a proper name, though that name is... well... ... ... ... it's called a "fleshy receptacle"... yeah... have fun with that.
In Oregon, we have the marionberry (used, for example, as a flavor in Tillamook ice cream). According to a Google AI search: Marionberries are a type of blackberry that are a cross between Chehalem and Olallie blackberries. They are medium-sized, conical in shape, and dark purple to black in color, with a tart, earthy sweetness. Marionberries are harvested from early July to early August and have a firmer texture than common blackberries. They are sometimes called the "king of the blackberries".
*Great video, mate! I've just finished editing one of my videos when I was back in England. Went foraging for black berries and got almost 1.5kg!!! awesome or what* 💪👍
The tree from which we get Elderberries is called an Elder. Its flower is called an Elderflower. It was introduced into Britain by the Romans who cultivated to make drinks. One was similar to the elderflower cordial (but they didn't have white sugar, so it wasn't exactly like the modern recipe). The other was elderberry wine
Strawberries also used to be called Earth berries Cranberries come from Crane berries. Some say Raspberries are called that because they help people with a raspy voice
Cranberry, I have always understood this to be 'crane berry' after the bird which you did mention. You may be interested in knowing that there is a village about 18miles/29km N of my home in St Leonards on Sea [south coast England] called Cranbrook which means Crane's Brook. That bird no longer lives there as it was extirpated in Britain long ago, although it is currently being reintroduced [not in the Cranbrook area]. As for the Blackberry phone, it was one of 3 fruit names used for technology devices, Apple and Orange were the other 2, Only Apple survives.
I definitely heard “raspberry” as a term for a fart sound growing up in the U.S. I believe the Golden Raspberry Awards (a spoof of the Academy Awards for bad movies) got their name from this usage. Since I’m from Southern California, any mention of boysenberries immediately makes me think of trips to Knott’s Berry Farm as a kid. Apparently that was a big part of their business early on, when they were an actual farm and not an amusement park. One of my favorites is the marionberry, a hybrid made in Marion County, Oregon, which is very popular in the Portland area, because it’s easily confused with Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. (I don’t know whether he was named this in specific reference to the berry.)
I used a Blackberry in the mid-00's . I only used it rarely, and just for text and phone, so I cannot speak to its other features. The Blackberry is where I learned to use two thumbs to press buttons to enter information on a telecommunications device, rather than ten finger typing on full size keyboards or single index finger tapping on telephone handsets of the time. As a kid I was "lucky" enough to use the old rotary phones. No button pushing at all. I don't miss "The Good 'Ole Days" at all:) Todays smartphones are as hands-free a device as was imagined by science-fiction when I was learning BASIC on a TRS-80 in middle school. Thanks for the informative and fun essays Name Explain. Keep on :)
Swedish berries very often end with -on, at least berries native to Sweden. I have no idea why. We have different names for all of them in Norwegian, and they sometimes have nothing to do with the -on names. Blokkebær - Odon - Bog Bilberry Multer - Hjortron - Cloudberry Bringebær - Hallon - Raspberry Tyttebær - Lingon - Lingonberry Markjorbær - Smultron - Wild strawberry Melbær - Mjölon - Bearberry (also kinnikinnick, apparently) Nyper - Nypon - Rose hip
8:38 I never owned one either but EVERYONE around me did. In fact, the picture that you used obviously came from my country as Telkomsel and Indosat are Indonesian providers. People here held on to their BlackBerry longer than any other country on the planet before they were finally replaced with the new generation of smartphones. Nice video, by the way. I’ve always wondered about raspberry and gooseberry, but I’ve read about the theory about the “straw” in “strawberry” before.
When I was a kid (around 50 years ago), I lived near a huge area of dunes. During the summer we'd make a picnic and disappear up the dunes to the pool in it for the day. (This was when we - friends of my age and maybe my kid sister when she was old enough - were between about 6-10 years old. The dunes were about a mile away but such was our innocence...) Anyway, late summer, on the edge of the dunes where the sand and soil of the neighbouring fields mixed up (where the ruins of a small Norman "castle" are - more likely some sort of stone fort), there would be some gorgeous blue berries. Not blueberries, AFAIK, but juicy, sweet ones that were never enough to collect to take home, but made an awesome pre-home-time snack! They were known locally, fairly obviously, as "duneberries" but I've never heard of them since then. It's a shame because they were delicious!
In German the names of these berries aren't very better. Strawberry - Erdbeere ("earthberry"/"groundberry") Gooseberry - Stachelbeere ("stingerberry") Lingonberry - Preiselbeere/ Kronsbeere (no clue) Huckleberry - Heidelbeere ("heathenberry"?) Chokeberry - Apfelbeere ("appleberry") Raspberry - Himbeere (no clue) Elderberry - Holunderbeere (no clue) Cranberry - Moosbeere ("mossberry") Blackberry (the real berry) - Brombeere (its seems to be "bromineberry", but I doubt it, because the word Brom has a long O-sound but the word Brombeere has a short O-sound)
I thought that 'Stachelbeere' was a 'spine-', 'barb-' or 'thorn-' berry, as in 'Stacheldraht', 'barbed wire'. A sting is 'Stich', isn't it? My theory for 'Himbeere' is that it is a contraction of 'Himmelbeere' ('sky-berry'), as a counterpoint to 'Erdbeere'.
Maybe impossible under industrial agriculture systems. They do perfectly fine in home landscapes provided the right mycorhizae are introduced and the soil conditions are looked after.
@@spoonsareoccasionallymadeo5728 No one's quite sure. I know the University of Idaho has been trying for some time, and apparently they're "making progress", but that's all I know
Although you didn't feature bananas, as seen in the name of my Fan Blog for Valérie Čižmárová, 'Bananas For Breakfast' you did at least feature the other fruit with which I associate her, blueberries, as compensation for that omission. Her recording for the Děčínská Kotva Festival of 1971 was primarily entitled 'Za sluncem, za vodou' ('In Sunshine, In Water'). However, it did have an alternate title of 'Borůvek pár' ('A Few Blueberries'). Because it starts with Karel Vlach's Orchestra's horn section screaming into action in the opening bars it's my ringtone, which makes it quite fitting that you should have featured the Blackberry device, as I think of my mobile as a 'Blueberry' thanks to that ringtone. 'Za sluncem, za vodou'/'Borůvek pár' is at my TH-cam channel, taken from the original vinyl, BTW.
Cranberry in swedish is tranbär, but in swedish we have a blueberry problem: our blueberries just grow wild in the forest and have red pulp, but there is also American blueberries sold with the same name, but they are farmed and have white pulp. Wild strawberries are called smultron in swedish and may be collected on straws.
When I was growing up, my mom used to send me out to the edge of the woods to pick blackberries. My brothers and I would fill up the little baskets, then head back to the house. Very few berries ever made it back to the house with us. My mom would ask us with big purple stains around our mouths where were all the berries. Our reply was "The baskets were full when we started back," She would just laugh, take the berries we had brought back, and send us back out a few days later to do more berry picking.
Cranberries in Latvian are dzērvenes, which means… Crane berries, or craners to be precise. I've been living my whole life believing it is the same in English. As for a reason, they grow in marshes where cranes also happen to be.
Yeah it seems that in Dutch too it is much clearer that the "cran-" does in fact come from the bird crane, and probably in other languages too. Out of curiosity I decided to go to an online translator and try several languages, and it is in fact very clear in several others including Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Polish, and the bird and the berry are apparently even homonyms (different meanings, same word) in Ukrainian. Interestingly German does not have this connection, nor do the languages of the other Baltics? Also the Russian word for the bird is very obviously related to the Ukrainian word for both, but the word for berry seems completely unrelated in Russian. Overall seems like it's common enough for the two to be connected, but it isn't the majority, most cases where it is connected seem to be north and east parts of Europe (not to be confused with specifically north-east as one thing), reason could possibly be something like that's where you can naturally encounter such swamps with both cranes and cranberries in them?
What I've heard about cranberry is it is derived from "crane berry" because the flowers that the plants produced resembled cranes as well as the fact that the bogs that the plant grew in were often visited by cranes.
Just so you know, entomology is bugs, word origins is etymology. Also i had to look up what their flowers look like, and you're right, that could definitely be a reason why many peoples which had access to both the birds and the berries may have called the berries that. The fact that the cran- does in fact stand for crane is made quite clear by several other European languages calling them after the bird too, including Dutch and the Scandinavian languages, but surprisingly not German
I am a die hard strawberry fan. Interestingly, strawberries are named Erdbeern in German which is "earth berry". In French its "fraise" and I have no idea what that's from. You forgot to mention Saskatoon Berries - a Canadian variety.
The cranberry blossom looks like a cranes head, not the stem. My favorite berry is the blueberry. They freeze well and taste so good, especially the wild ones. I'll take almost any berry though💖
I am a Hungarian and our names don't have "berry" in it, except rosehip, honeysuckle ("honey berry" for us) and goji berry but the last one is so new we just took the original name, it probably never will get its own Hungarian one. The unique names have no other meanings, just the fruit. In the last years I have looked up zillion names in English, for plants and mushrooms, it's very interesting to compare them with ours :) Especially mushrooms, they have some creative or poetic names quite often ;)
In Chinese the character 莓 méi is used for most berries (not to be confused with 梅 méi meaning plum) So: 蓝莓 "blue berry" 黑莓 "black berry" 草莓 "grass berry" 🍓 鹅莓 "goose berry" 云莓 "cloud berry" (though these are so rare I doubt you'd ever find it here) There's a few different words for raspberry, I've seen 山莓 "mountain berry" and 树莓 "tree berry" A quick search suggests that the most accepted word for cranberry is 蔓越莓 which historically may have meant something like "climbing over the vine berry" but now is basically just a name (dictionaries also list 小红莓 "small red berry" and 酸莓 "sour berry" which are a bit easier to parse) Boysenberry is a phonetic name 波森莓 but let's be real phonetic names are no fun to talk about Huckleberries aren't really known except for Huckleberry Finn which is pretty popular as foreign books go
Another possibility for 'rasp berry' could be the rough and thorny stems and leaves. A rasp is a woodworking tool like a giant-toothed file. I suspect the use of 'rasp' for a sore throat refers more to the feeling of tissues being roughened and scraped---as with a file. As for 'elder berry', it could also be a slight scrambling of the consonants. In German (and maybe Anglo Saxon'?), 'Edel' means 'noble' or honored. As the Elder has a very high regard among herbalists, and has for millennia, it would make more sense if it derived from its appreciation as a very noble medicine. Lingon berry: 'Ling' is still the common name for heather in Ireland, Scotland and parts of Britain.
raspberry juice and the feeling just always reminds me of the "rasp" it's hard to explain. I'm autistic and tend to make weird connections but the juice and "feeling of raspberry" has always felt raspy? by feeling of raspberry I mean I can almost pinpoint raspberry as a specific emotion or feeling. I can't explain the weird things that happen in my mind.
If you could only eat one kind of berry for the rest of your life what would it be?
Raspberry
Grapeberry
Idk. Raspberry is a good choice though. Would you be able to eat it with other stuff?
Would it just be that berry or that and berry flavoured foods. If I chose strawberry could I have something with strawberry in it?
blueberry (not the fake canadian one)
Halle Berry but not Holly berries.
My favorite is "Boysenberry" because it sounds awfully close to "Poisonberry"!
Lol same
"Boys and Berry"
Yea i used to think it was when i was little lmao thought my mom was tryna poison me
😳
I legitimately used to think it was that
A Rasp is also a type of long, thin, file - often with a rounded surface, and sometimes completely circular.
I had seen coarse toothed files, usually made for woodworking called a rasp. The round skinny files were called rattail files.
The French word "ra^per" (originally rasper) means "to grate."
Maybe it's because their surface is very ripped, with very little hairs poking out.
Some of their regional names in Europe also link them with bees and bumblebees - you could say they share... "similarities" on their behind ^^'
To me, the name raspberry reminds me of the sharp, almost bitter taste compared to other berries, like a rasp (or file) applied to the tongue.
@@tomhalla426
Oh yes, I know the ones you mean.
I actually use rasp files from time to time, and I've got them in my toolbox. I have circular ones, but they have a handle, and it's a constant diameter. I think the rattail ones (which I also have!) are quite a bit thinner, and get thinner towards the ends, They don't really have a handle - it's all file!
They are all pretty coarse.
In Spanish, blueberry is called arándano. Cranberry is referred to as arándano rojo. So technically, cranberries are called "red blueberries" in Spanish.
I've never heard someone refer to blueberries as "arándanos" before. Here is "mora azul", the literal translation of the English word.
@@vv0offor me "mora" sounds like "amora" wich actualy is blackberry
@@vv0of and where is that?
@@a2falcone Idk where are they from but I'm mexican and we call blueberries "mora azul". But anyway both are correct, since it depends on the region I guess.
@@vv0of I've never heard anyone refer to it as a "mora azul"
I guess it's just a regional thing
One of my favourite berry name facts: in Anishinaabemowin (the language of the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe people) the word for ‘berry’ is ‘imin’, but imin also means ‘blueberry’ - so, a blueberry is the true berry and all other berries are a deviation. For example, a ‘strawberry’ is ‘ode’imin’, or ‘heart-berry’, or ‘heart-shaped-blueberry’.
I think a better way of interpreting that is that they simply call blueberries "berries" and have no more specific word for it.
Don't mind me just making a comparison with dutch and english:
Berry>Bes
Strawberry>Aardbei=Earthberry
Gooseberry>Kruisbes=Crossberry
Loganberry>Loganbes
Huckleberry>Bosbes=Forrestberry
Chokeberry>Appelbes=Appleberry
Tayberry>Taybes
Raspberry>Framboos(From french)
Boysenberry>Jongensbes=Boysberry
Elderberry>Vlierbes(Dunno what "Vlier" means)
Açai Berry>Açai Bes
Cranberry>Cranberry(We use the english word)
Blackberry>Braam.
Braam resembles he English word Bramble, which is the name of he plant whose fruit is the Blackberry.
@@neilbuckley1613 Thanks for the explanation.
Earthberries (strawberries) in other languages:
Erdbeere (German), Jordbær (Norwegian), Jordgubb (Swedish)
more German
Gooseberry: Stachelbeere (Stingberry)
Huckleberry: Heidelbeere (Moorberry)
Raspberry: Himbeere (unknown meaning)
Elderberry: Holunderbeere (Elderberry)/Fliederbeere (Lilacberry)
Blackberry: Brombeere (Bromiumberry)
So "vlier" seems to be the Dutch word for _lilac._
Funnily enough I read earlier this week that Canadian French has its own word for cranberries but European (and other global) varieties of French are content just to say 'le cranberry'.
What's the word?
@@resourceress7 Apparently it's 'la canneberge' so it's not even the same gender as in standard French! 😮
I grew up with my grandmother’s dewberry cobbler here in Texas. Decades later I can still taste it. But I never saw dewberries in stores and wondered where they came from. Just a few years ago I visited friends in a town near where my mother’s family’s farm had been and found dewberries along a creek. They are similar to blackberries.
There's some wild ones growing in my parents' backyard in Texas! They're good!
For anyone wondering on the taste dewberries tend to be more tart and it has a lot more seeds than blackberries.
But of course I can only speak for the wild variety that grows around where I live.
@@Notantree Huh. The ones I'm used to ate less seedy than blackberries, and a little less bitter...
Blackberries that creep/trail along the ground rather than having upright canes are called dewberries, in the eastern USA at least, presumably because the surface of the ground is also where you expect dew. As with erect blackberries, there are multiple species.
When I was a child we had strawberries growing in the garden. They were covered with black netting supported by low ( 30 inch) posts - that was to keep the birds off. As the berries began to swell they risked dipping down and touching the earth. To prevent them getting splashed with mud they were bedded with straw to keep them from coming in contact with the soil and also to try and deter slugs. Patrick please note that straw is the remnants from a cereal crop ie the hollow stems and dried up leaves. Dried up grass is hay !
Why is this so strangely spaced?
@@HerOwnKnife So it's easier to read natch.
According to the Duolingo blog:
cranberry was repurposed in North America from the German or Dutch kraanbere ("crane" like the bird, plus "berry")-a different swamp-raised berry!
Back when I used to work tech support for Sprint I loved Blackberry phones. They rarely had technical issues so most BB calls were for activation. That said the activation was pretty much automatic once you put the phone on the account, it just took a while to complete. So it was time to just talk to the customer and relax while the phone did its thing.
2:55 Fun fact: those "seeds" you see on a strawberry aren't actually seeds. And the red fruit we normally associate strawberries with aren't the actual fruit of the plant (they're an accessory fruit)
Botanical term for those 'seeds' is 'achenes'
The "-on" in "lingon" is an old plural form. We also have it in Swedish words like "ögon" ("eyes", sing. "öga") and in various words for different types of fruit.
I always thought strawberries were called that because you thread wild strawberries onto literal straws when you pick them. That is, the small, melts-in-your-mouth type of European strawberry that's known as "smultron" here. (Again the "-on"!)
There is an old English name for theLingonberry which is the Cowberry.
You beat me to it with the strawberry explanation. It makes perfect sense. The name would have stuck even though the hybrids developed later were too big and heavy to thread that way.
You left out the fact that 'cranberry' in Swedish, 'tranbär'. is almost a direct translation of 'crane berry'. The SAOB entry for 'tranbär' links to 'tränjon' and the etymology for that ends up referring to 'trana', the bird.
Fun fact, Hackberry's name comes from the word hag (old woman) because sometimes the bark would become rough and wrinkly, which people say it looks like an old hag
You Should do a video about tomatoes being a fruit. People think they're clever when they point this out, but would probably be surprised if you told them that cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, and peas are actually fruits too.
Questionable about the peas.
The pods are fruit, but most people don't eat the pods, just the seeds.
"Raspberry" the sound apparently crossed the Pond right away, as I've heard the term in America all my life.
"Açaí" is pronounced "ah-sah-EE". That tail softens the C, and is called a cedilla, which is Spanish for "little Z". Which is ironic, as it's used in Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Provençal, and French-- the languages surrounding Spanish-- but not Spanish itself. It died out in Spain.
You should do a video on this!
In French, it's rather a "little C".
I love Marionberries. They are the state fruit of Oregon. Technically it’s a type of blackberry, a cross between two popular varieties. Makes great pies and preserves.
Rasp is a tool to grate or remove small bits of wood creating a gritty byproduct. Since raspberry seeds annoyingly get stuck in your teeth, I always imagined the gritty texture influenced the name.
Patrick,
Anyone who doesn't understand the name of a rasp berry has never held a wood rasp in their hand. Go grab one.
I often run across wild raspberries and blackberries growing together in the woods. I wonder whether they ever spontaneously produce hybrid berries.
Strawberries are called strawberries for the way they are grown. You plant them with a bed of straw on the ground to absorb extra moisture, which helps to prevent their spoiling. And in German, they're called Erdbeeren, which translates to "earth berries" for how low to the ground they grow.
And in Dutch "Aardbeien" that are indeed grown in beds of straw.
You may collect wild strawberries on straws.....
And wild strawberries often grow in fields of straw...
Açaí is pronounced as “ah-sah-EE”
Been there. Eaten that. Still do. Not in the Amazon, but in BH, MG.
Very good way to spell out the pronunciation 👍
As soon as I heard /ah-kEE/, I started screeching.
That «ç» is pronounced as an «s», just like in French.
He caught the "ç" spelling and accent mark on it too, and yet still pronounced it wrong.
The term “raspberry” (or “razzberry”) for the oral fart sound is also used in some parts of the US, and thanks to the mass media (old movies and comedy routines), it is understood in areas where it is not commonly spoken.
Upon moving from Florida last year to the capital city of Oregon, Salem, which is mostly in Marion County, I learned of a blackberry-raspberry hybrid developed in the county agricultural department named the Marionberry, which is apparently known only in Marion County and the Willamette (rhymes with “dammit”) River Valley. The jam made from them is delicious!
Incidentally, there was a former mayor of Washington, DC in the 1970s named Marion Barry, but there is no connection.
You can sometimes find Marionberries elsewhere too - there's a yogurt I get that's made from them - pretty sure it's either Tillamook brand or Brown Cow brand, not sure which off the top of my head...
Not just in the 70s - I was familiar with Mayor Marion Barry in the 90s and was surprised to see Marionberry jam when visiting California!
Update on the “razzberry” sound. In the US it is also called a “Bronx cheer”, after the borough in New York City.
Also, good to see that Marionberries are getting exposed outside of Oregon.
And I vaguely remember Marion Barry making somewhat of a comeback in the nineties.
The marionberry, popular in Oregon and Washington, is a hybrid of the Chehalem and Ollalie varieties of blackberry. It was developed by the US Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University, and bred and tested in Marion County, Oregon.
Elderberries are mildly poisonous before cooking which could be where fire comes into it. I love the liquorice smell of the foliage and flowers.
In 1920s slang, something that was really cool might be called "the Berries"!
Still common in Maine (NE USA) through the 1970s at least.
I’ve never heard my last name this many times in one sitting
Your videos are always fun; this one was berry special.
I miss my old blackberry. It was awesome having a physical keyboard.
Some botanists would argue that a strawberry isn't even a fruit, but that each individual seed is.
That's correct. What people colloquially refer to as the "seeds" are, in fact, _entire_ fruits; *very* teeny tiny fruits. And they're all arranged on the outside of the big red thing that we colloquially refer to as the "fruit", but it is actually an accessory part of the fruits (the teeny little fruits speckling its surface). It even has a proper name, though that name is... well...
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... it's called a "fleshy receptacle"... yeah... have fun with that.
Growers used to put STRAW under the berries to keep them from the frost
Loganberries being named after a guy named Mr Logan makes me think of bing cherries named after a Chinese-American guy named Mr Bing.
Sad to see Mulberries getting skipped over. Would be interesting to know where they get their name from
I was waiting for a matt berry joke. Not disappointed.
In Oregon, we have the marionberry (used, for example, as a flavor in Tillamook ice cream). According to a Google AI search:
Marionberries are a type of blackberry that are a cross between Chehalem and Olallie blackberries. They are medium-sized, conical in shape, and dark purple to black in color, with a tart, earthy sweetness. Marionberries are harvested from early July to early August and have a firmer texture than common blackberries. They are sometimes called the "king of the blackberries".
*Great video, mate! I've just finished editing one of my videos when I was back in England. Went foraging for black berries and got almost 1.5kg!!! awesome or what* 💪👍
Huckleberries are awesome. Especially when you have been hiking for a while and need a sweet treat.
Awww--you beat me to the Matt Berry joke! You're no fun anymore. :)
The tree from which we get Elderberries is called an Elder. Its flower is called an Elderflower. It was introduced into Britain by the Romans who cultivated to make drinks. One was similar to the elderflower cordial (but they didn't have white sugar, so it wasn't exactly like the modern recipe). The other was elderberry wine
Strawberries also used to be called Earth berries
Cranberries come from Crane berries.
Some say Raspberries are called that because they help people with a raspy voice
You forgot to mention Eric Berry, the best safety to ever play at Tennessee.
As an American, I can confirm that we call mouth fart noises as "Raspberries" and "Blowing raspberries"
I was waiting for one of my favorite berries to come up in your video, but, alas, was not in: mulberry.
You missed the Mulberry.
"It's a class 'M' planet - so it should at least have rodenberries ..." (Credit: the writers of Futurama)
Cranberry, I have always understood this to be 'crane berry' after the bird which you did mention. You may be interested in knowing that there is a village about 18miles/29km N of my home in St Leonards on Sea [south coast England] called Cranbrook which means Crane's Brook. That bird no longer lives there as it was extirpated in Britain long ago, although it is currently being reintroduced [not in the Cranbrook area].
As for the Blackberry phone, it was one of 3 fruit names used for technology devices, Apple and Orange were the other 2, Only Apple survives.
I definitely heard “raspberry” as a term for a fart sound growing up in the U.S. I believe the Golden Raspberry Awards (a spoof of the Academy Awards for bad movies) got their name from this usage.
Since I’m from Southern California, any mention of boysenberries immediately makes me think of trips to Knott’s Berry Farm as a kid. Apparently that was a big part of their business early on, when they were an actual farm and not an amusement park.
One of my favorites is the marionberry, a hybrid made in Marion County, Oregon, which is very popular in the Portland area, because it’s easily confused with Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. (I don’t know whether he was named this in specific reference to the berry.)
I used a Blackberry in the mid-00's . I only used it rarely, and just for text and phone, so I cannot speak to its other features. The Blackberry is where I learned to use two thumbs to press buttons to enter information on a telecommunications device, rather than ten finger typing on full size keyboards or single index finger tapping on telephone handsets of the time. As a kid I was "lucky" enough to use the old rotary phones. No button pushing at all. I don't miss "The Good 'Ole Days" at all:) Todays smartphones are as hands-free a device as was imagined by science-fiction when I was learning BASIC on a TRS-80 in middle school.
Thanks for the informative and fun essays Name Explain. Keep on :)
Swedish berries very often end with -on, at least berries native to Sweden. I have no idea why. We have different names for all of them in Norwegian, and they sometimes have nothing to do with the -on names.
Blokkebær - Odon - Bog Bilberry
Multer - Hjortron - Cloudberry
Bringebær - Hallon - Raspberry
Tyttebær - Lingon - Lingonberry
Markjorbær - Smultron - Wild strawberry
Melbær - Mjölon - Bearberry (also kinnikinnick, apparently)
Nyper - Nypon - Rose hip
If you walk through a wild raspberry patch with shorts on you'll soon find out how they got the name. The word "rasp" is a synonym for "scrape".
Cranberry happens to be Tranbär in Swedish, Trana also happens to be the Swedish word for Crane.
from what i recalled, strawberry used to be spelled as strewberry. the seeds looked like it was strewed around the berry.
Missed out Mulberry, Cloudberry and Salmonberry.
8:38 I never owned one either but EVERYONE around me did. In fact, the picture that you used obviously came from my country as Telkomsel and Indosat are Indonesian providers. People here held on to their BlackBerry longer than any other country on the planet before they were finally replaced with the new generation of smartphones. Nice video, by the way. I’ve always wondered about raspberry and gooseberry, but I’ve read about the theory about the “straw” in “strawberry” before.
When I was a kid (around 50 years ago), I lived near a huge area of dunes. During the summer we'd make a picnic and disappear up the dunes to the pool in it for the day. (This was when we - friends of my age and maybe my kid sister when she was old enough - were between about 6-10 years old. The dunes were about a mile away but such was our innocence...)
Anyway, late summer, on the edge of the dunes where the sand and soil of the neighbouring fields mixed up (where the ruins of a small Norman "castle" are - more likely some sort of stone fort), there would be some gorgeous blue berries. Not blueberries, AFAIK, but juicy, sweet ones that were never enough to collect to take home, but made an awesome pre-home-time snack! They were known locally, fairly obviously, as "duneberries" but I've never heard of them since then. It's a shame because they were delicious!
Well, there is a CranBROOK in Kent, I believe, and in the Canadian Province of British Columbia.
Raspberries may be named after the tool rasp. It is a type of file with rough teeth. The bumpiness of raspberries may be the connect to rasps.
I appreciate the acknowledgement at the beginning that many of the fruits we call berries aren’t botanically considered berries.
Well raspberry for the facial expression and sound is also super common in US English too so it's not uniquely British.
I often mull over the origin of the name mulberry.
Salmonberry grew wild around my school so I always enjoyed those, there were a bitter type of berry.
Here in Sweden, we call strawberries 'jordgubbar'...which, I kid you not, translates to 'earth guys'.
I’d assumed that the “rasp” referred to the thorns on the vines- they rasp your skin off. But I’m just a dumb hick from Missouri.
Who could live without strawberries? My favorite milkshake flavor! 😋
Interesting. I wondered about the name. The plants are very low to the ground, unlike say mulberries which grow on trees.
English -- Norwegian -- Norwegian split up and translated directly
Strawberry -- Jordbær -- Soil berry
Raspberry -- Bingebær -- Carry berry
Elderberry -- Hyllebær -- Shelf berry
Lingonberry -- Tyttebær -- Tight berry
Blackberry -- Bjørnebær -- Bear berry
Blackcurrants -- Solbær -- Sun berry
Mulberry -- Morbær -- Mother berry
My personal favourite berry is Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry?!
Here in Sweden we have Smultron, google says wild strawberry
I can't get enough of raspberry in the 1995 Dracula
To figure out this berry stuff what we need is a cunning Lyngr.
It was that or I do the Wild Red Berry gets the secret word bit.
Strawberry in Swedosh = jordgubbe = earth geezer
In German the names of these berries aren't very better.
Strawberry - Erdbeere ("earthberry"/"groundberry")
Gooseberry - Stachelbeere ("stingerberry")
Lingonberry - Preiselbeere/ Kronsbeere (no clue)
Huckleberry - Heidelbeere ("heathenberry"?)
Chokeberry - Apfelbeere ("appleberry")
Raspberry - Himbeere (no clue)
Elderberry - Holunderbeere (no clue)
Cranberry - Moosbeere ("mossberry")
Blackberry (the real berry) - Brombeere (its seems to be "bromineberry", but I doubt it, because the word Brom has a long O-sound but the word Brombeere has a short O-sound)
I thought that 'Stachelbeere' was a 'spine-', 'barb-' or 'thorn-' berry, as in 'Stacheldraht', 'barbed wire'. A sting is 'Stich', isn't it? My theory for 'Himbeere' is that it is a contraction of 'Himmelbeere' ('sky-berry'), as a counterpoint to 'Erdbeere'.
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A stinger is the "Stachel" from a bee or so as well.
@@HalfEye79 Yes, so I see from my German dictionary.
Can we get a Pt 2 where you explain dingleberry??
Another hyperextension of the theme: My favorite berry also is not a real berry, but is my brother, Barry. You owe me one bro'!😊
Fun fact about huckleberries: they can't be domestically cultivated. All huckleberries therefore have to be gathered by hand from wild plants.
What makes them impossible to cultivate?
Maybe impossible under industrial agriculture systems. They do perfectly fine in home landscapes provided the right mycorhizae are introduced and the soil conditions are looked after.
@@spoonsareoccasionallymadeo5728 No one's quite sure. I know the University of Idaho has been trying for some time, and apparently they're "making progress", but that's all I know
Although you didn't feature bananas, as seen in the name of my Fan Blog for Valérie Čižmárová, 'Bananas For Breakfast' you did at least feature the other fruit with which I associate her, blueberries, as compensation for that omission. Her recording for the Děčínská Kotva Festival of 1971 was primarily entitled 'Za sluncem, za vodou' ('In Sunshine, In Water'). However, it did have an alternate title of 'Borůvek pár' ('A Few Blueberries'). Because it starts with Karel Vlach's Orchestra's horn section screaming into action in the opening bars it's my ringtone, which makes it quite fitting that you should have featured the Blackberry device, as I think of my mobile as a 'Blueberry' thanks to that ringtone. 'Za sluncem, za vodou'/'Borůvek pár' is at my TH-cam channel, taken from the original vinyl, BTW.
Cranberry in swedish is tranbär, but in swedish we have a blueberry problem: our blueberries just grow wild in the forest and have red pulp, but there is also American blueberries sold with the same name, but they are farmed and have white pulp. Wild strawberries are called smultron in swedish and may be collected on straws.
Thanks for this video. Always confused by the term "berry". Also, Açai is pronounced "Ah sigh ee".
My favorite berry is the Marionberry, a hybrid developed in Oregon.
I know, right?!
Strawberry seeds are fruits with seeds of their own inside the fruit is an accessory fruit. Like how a cashew grows off the cashew apple
Blackberries are technically purplish
When I was growing up, my mom used to send me out to the edge of the woods to pick blackberries. My brothers and I would fill up the little baskets, then head back to the house. Very few berries ever made it back to the house with us. My mom would ask us with big purple stains around our mouths where were all the berries. Our reply was "The baskets were full when we started back," She would just laugh, take the berries we had brought back, and send us back out a few days later to do more berry picking.
so are blueberries
Cranberries in Latvian are dzērvenes, which means… Crane berries, or craners to be precise. I've been living my whole life believing it is the same in English. As for a reason, they grow in marshes where cranes also happen to be.
Yeah it seems that in Dutch too it is much clearer that the "cran-" does in fact come from the bird crane, and probably in other languages too.
Out of curiosity I decided to go to an online translator and try several languages, and it is in fact very clear in several others including Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Polish, and the bird and the berry are apparently even homonyms (different meanings, same word) in Ukrainian. Interestingly German does not have this connection, nor do the languages of the other Baltics? Also the Russian word for the bird is very obviously related to the Ukrainian word for both, but the word for berry seems completely unrelated in Russian.
Overall seems like it's common enough for the two to be connected, but it isn't the majority, most cases where it is connected seem to be north and east parts of Europe (not to be confused with specifically north-east as one thing), reason could possibly be something like that's where you can naturally encounter such swamps with both cranes and cranberries in them?
Growing up, I would thread wild strawberries on grass straws.
What I've heard about cranberry is it is derived from "crane berry" because the flowers that the plants produced resembled cranes as well as the fact that the bogs that the plant grew in were often visited by cranes.
Was Randy Feltface taught us "blueberries are f**king purple"
"Weinabasi" is a compound equivalent to "wineberry". Gothic is not an ancestor of English; Proto-Germanic is the last common ancestor of both.
Berry is one of my favorite words.
I have a theory about the entomology of cranberries and i think its to do with the fact the flowers look like the neck and the head of a crane
Just so you know, entomology is bugs, word origins is etymology. Also i had to look up what their flowers look like, and you're right, that could definitely be a reason why many peoples which had access to both the birds and the berries may have called the berries that. The fact that the cran- does in fact stand for crane is made quite clear by several other European languages calling them after the bird too, including Dutch and the Scandinavian languages, but surprisingly not German
A berry informative video!
I am a die hard strawberry fan. Interestingly, strawberries are named Erdbeern in German which is "earth berry". In French its "fraise" and I have no idea what that's from. You forgot to mention Saskatoon Berries - a Canadian variety.
Great video! I love berry flavor
The cranberry blossom looks like a cranes head, not the stem. My favorite berry is the blueberry. They freeze well and taste so good, especially the wild ones. I'll take almost any berry though💖
I am a Hungarian and our names don't have "berry" in it, except rosehip, honeysuckle ("honey berry" for us) and goji berry but the last one is so new we just took the original name, it probably never will get its own Hungarian one. The unique names have no other meanings, just the fruit.
In the last years I have looked up zillion names in English, for plants and mushrooms, it's very interesting to compare them with ours :) Especially mushrooms, they have some creative or poetic names quite often ;)
In Chinese the character 莓 méi is used for most berries (not to be confused with 梅 méi meaning plum)
So:
蓝莓 "blue berry"
黑莓 "black berry"
草莓 "grass berry" 🍓
鹅莓 "goose berry"
云莓 "cloud berry" (though these are so rare I doubt you'd ever find it here)
There's a few different words for raspberry, I've seen 山莓 "mountain berry" and 树莓 "tree berry"
A quick search suggests that the most accepted word for cranberry is 蔓越莓 which historically may have meant something like "climbing over the vine berry" but now is basically just a name (dictionaries also list 小红莓 "small red berry" and 酸莓 "sour berry" which are a bit easier to parse)
Boysenberry is a phonetic name 波森莓 but let's be real phonetic names are no fun to talk about
Huckleberries aren't really known except for Huckleberry Finn which is pretty popular as foreign books go
Another possibility for 'rasp berry' could be the rough and thorny stems and leaves. A rasp is a woodworking tool like a giant-toothed file. I suspect the use of 'rasp' for a sore throat refers more to the feeling of tissues being roughened and scraped---as with a file.
As for 'elder berry', it could also be a slight scrambling of the consonants. In German (and maybe Anglo Saxon'?), 'Edel' means 'noble' or honored. As the Elder has a very high regard among herbalists, and has for millennia, it would make more sense if it derived from its appreciation as a very noble medicine.
Lingon berry: 'Ling' is still the common name for heather in Ireland, Scotland and parts of Britain.
raspberry juice and the feeling just always reminds me of the "rasp"
it's hard to explain. I'm autistic and tend to make weird connections but the juice and "feeling of raspberry" has always felt raspy?
by feeling of raspberry I mean I can almost pinpoint raspberry as a specific emotion or feeling. I can't explain the weird things that happen in my mind.
And what about mulberry? You mentioned so many unknown berry types but did't mentioned such a popular berry.
Um, straw is traditionally used for mulching strawberry fields.
Later Blackberries did have a TH-cam app