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Old 09-09-2008, 06:37 PM Question for English people
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What does Wales have to do with walnuts?
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Old 09-10-2008, 01:00 PM Re: Question for English people
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When modern English was forming, about 1,000 years ago, English people considered the Welsh foreign. Walnuts were also seen as foreign, so they were named after Wales.
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