Hey, this is my 1,111th post to Precision Blogging. How about that?
I was thinking: an awful lot of fruits have one or two syllable names in English. Apparently we like fruit names to be as simple as their operating instructions. 'Nectarine' is a notable exception. I suspected that this word was a 20th Century invention, but a quick web search will show you that the word is at least 400 years old.
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"Banana," "pineapple," "pomegranate" -- and that's just the 1st 3 that came to mind.
Lemon, Lime, orange, pear, peach, grapes, grapefruit, melon, plaintain, plum, quince, medlar, cherry, loquat, kumquat, greengage, currant, raisin, coffee, date, ... there are plenty of these.
-- the old prune, PB
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