Since the new DLC being confirmed as South American, I will highly request to have a new skin for “Forage Bush” replacing Berries with Pine Apple. Or should we call it Ananas? Literally every single language call it Ananas or some variation except for English.
Pineapple in Odia is Sapuri. It’s super odd, as most of the world uses a version of Ananas. The root of Sapuri is a mystery. Any ideas why Odia completely skipped the common name?
English speakers originally called it ananas, but a few years later decided to call it pineapple because it looks like a big pine cone (which at the time were also called pineapples). For about 200 years ananas and pineapple were used interchangeably, but eventually pineapple won.
At least that’s what the OED tells me. Wikipedia has a longer and more convoluted story that contradicts itself and doesn’t make much sense. So I’m going with the OED explanation on this one.
Pineapples can be quite brightly coloured when on the plant… But yeah, not like that.