I recently discovered that Ferengi was an old word meaning, I think, Portuguese -- a kind of Portuguese trader in the East Indies, maybe? I can't remember now. It was an ethnic group, though. On Earth, I mean.
Persian traders took the term far and wide and farang is the bang up-to-date modern term for Westerner in Thai. Apparently used in the Dravidian languages too.
Reminds me of reading somewhere that "the pox" (i.e. syphilis) was commonly known as "the English disease" in France and "the French disease" in England ...
Doesn't taste a thing like a tomato, even a yellow -- I've grown both together. They're sour, or tangy at least, and have the consistency, maybe, of a green seedless grape.
Reminds me of reading somewhere that "the pox" (i.e. syphilis) was commonly known as "the English disease" in France and "the French disease" in England .
Whereas a condom is a French Letter in English and a capote Anglaise in French.
