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What simple thing do the following words have in common

apple, bad, gold, and tin

"As apples of gold in a silver carving, so is a word spoken at the right time for it."

While something tinny is bad.

TRiG.

Nice try but no

Is it their derivation? Language source?

They all seem to be old words which gave been around long the usual European influences.

I'm a bit tired and not expressing myself well.

G'night

+2 DGI on the right track there Feisor more detail required though

I thought the strain of the modern apple originated from Turkey. Somewhere around the coast of the Black Sea possibly (where it is speculated a lot of proto-languages split)? any connection there?

Apples as an item is not part of the question apples as a word however is another thing.

See post 2

ah. like "nuggets"

Anything to do with extracting ores?

No Clive post 2 is closer

Are they all Cornish words?

I think apple is one of those words that dropped an intitial n, as in "a napple". Dunno about the others.

I think you're thinking of a norange, Bagpuss.

So they are words with a specific contextual meaning or application, which has since dropped out of use or have become diversified to mean rare precious metals and fruit?

Something precious.

something growing.

Are they part of defucnt religious ritual, somethign to do with souls migrating to the afterlife, maybe

The word for soul wasn't derived from the greek "psyche" but rather it was from "apple"

Nice try

Please elaborate on post 2

Noodles!

Alright "somethign tinny is bad"

Is it taste testing? Some foods were desribed as having metallic flavours (even though we can't literally taste metals) so some things were spoken of as "golden", "silvery" or "tinny"

Apples: Golden. Delicious.

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Sorry I should have said post 4 sorry everyone

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"I meant post 4"

Now he says!



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