I did that, with feathers. That's something I bet every Hogwarts student does constantly, right?
I was right that it's "a-keens." It's mainly used about sunflower seeds, But Nabokov used it to refer to strawberries! Is that even fair? It's certainly not fair to inflict the word on your students. though they might say, "Oh yes, of course, I use the word [short eloquent Japanese word meaning strawberry seeds] all the time." You never know.
(Oh, this website (http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/grocery/achenes.html) thinks achenes is legit for the strawberry bumps. Whew! It's a long time since that epiphanous moment, I would be bummed if I had been using such an obscure word wrong for that long.)
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I was right that it's "a-keens." It's mainly used about sunflower seeds, But Nabokov used it to refer to strawberries! Is that even fair? It's certainly not fair to inflict the word on your students. though they might say, "Oh yes, of course, I use the word [short eloquent Japanese word meaning strawberry seeds] all the time." You never know.
(Oh, this website (http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/grocery/achenes.html) thinks achenes is legit for the strawberry bumps. Whew! It's a long time since that epiphanous moment, I would be bummed if I had been using such an obscure word wrong for that long.)