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February 8, 2002
Strange But True!
Q. What's a shoecabbage? A food? An item of wearing apparel?
A. Try neither. A language-lover's term it is. A shoecabbage is a word in another language with the same or a similar sound as a word in English but with a different meaning, says Teresa Dowlatshahi, 20-year shoecabbage collector and coiner of the term.
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