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Confessions of an English apple scrumper

Among the “100 things we didn’t know last year” was the fact that the peculiarly English word “scrumpy” originally meant small and shrivelled. It is also a dialect word for a small apple. Continue reading Confessions of an English apple scrumper

Posted on January 12, 2011January 12, 2011Categories NostalgiaTags Midhurst, original sin, scrumping, scrumpy2 Comments on Confessions of an English apple scrumper
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