That was early!

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I've just picked, and eaten, a ripe bramble.

Incidentally: spikey thorny bushes are called brambles. The fruits that grow on them are called brambles, also known as blackberries.

Or so I think. One of our sysadmins at work insists that only the bushes are called brambles - to the extent of being adamant that bramble jelly is made from the leaves and the shoot-tips. He's clearly insane.

However. How common is it to call the fruits brambles ? Would you do it ?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Put it down to being a Northerner, petal (and there's another NORTHERN use of a word. Anyone up here (north of the Tees and maybe north of the Trent)would know exactly what you meant. Fruit of said roadside/cultivated prickly strands which grab the picker by the skin/gloves/clothing.
Bramble, as in "bramble bush" is an adjective, not a pronoun.
Spelunca

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(Hasty check). Oh yeah, it is an adjective, isn't it- back to the bottom of the class for me...