Comment on Ach aye, Scottish words for plants

Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it means lion’s teeth.

  Pissenlit is piss the bed.

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  • Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aka no one in French would call them dandelion

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    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did, sometimes, as a child. We called them pissenlit et dandelion, both pronounced in French.

      I grew up speaking both English and French though.

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  • Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s what I meant, around here everyone calls them pissenlit, hence piss the bed.

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lion not Leon

    Leon is a proper name for a person.

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