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| May 12, 2019 at 0:17 | comment | added | SFWriter | Henceforth I shall serve Bruxelles meristems at Christmas dinner. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 18:54 | comment | added | Bloke Down The Pub | I won't argue about the significance of Belgium, but It's unusual to call the capital that there; it's either Bruxelles (Fr) or Brussel (Nl). | |
| May 11, 2019 at 10:41 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Brussels is the capital of a significant European country, and its name is hardly 'unusual'. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 10:32 | comment | added | David Richerby | @MichaelHarvey Black cat, Brussels sprout, dead donkey. It's hard to pronounce two adjacent identical consonants, so most people elide one of them (sometimes into a glottal stop). With unusual words like "Brussels", it's easy to omit the silent letter when writing. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 1:17 | history | edited | SFWriter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2019 at 22:02 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | When did Brussels sprouts lose the final 's' from the Belgian capital? | |
| May 10, 2019 at 18:13 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | +1 Thanks, this is a strong and useful answer. When different answers address different aspects of a situation, I don't see them as being in competition with each other. | |
| May 10, 2019 at 17:56 | history | answered | SFWriter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |