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As a native English speaker with some French, I've always wanted to open a food market and call it Fat Cherries. (self.linguistics_humor)
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English - Groceries:

  • The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery.
  • Plural form of grocery. Multiple retailers of groceries. French - gros ceries:
  • gros = fat (big)
  • cerises = cherries
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"gros" means more than just "fat" and it's still the word at the root (or head) of the grosserie . Commerce en gros, wholesale.

also, cerise is female. you would need to say grosse + the plural: grosses cerises ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He did mention he's an English native, though, he'd likely butcher the pronunciation so it sounds like Fat Cherries ๐Ÿ˜ƒ