• Armand1@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    What do you mean by “Citrons” that just means lemon in French and I’ve never heard it used in English.

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        For the lazy:

        “A source of confusion is that ‘citron’ in French and English are false friends, as the French word ‘citron’ refers to what in English is a lemon; whereas the French word for the citron is ‘cédrat’.

        Other languages that use variants of citron to refer to the lemon include Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Esperanto, Polish and the Scandinavian languages.[citation needed]”