stackyFACTSLinguistic laziness at its finest. In Old English, the word 'apple' was just a catch-all term for any fruit or nut that grew on a tree, other than berries. If they discovered a new fruit, they just slapped 'apple' on it, expecting everyone else to somehow figure out the difference.
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