The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78352   Message #1413420
Posted By: HuwG
17-Feb-05 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
Oddly, the Welsh word, "moron" means "carrots", plural. A single carrot is "moronen" (n.f.).

This usage is not exactly standard, but logical in a country sense. One eats carrots, grows them, puts them in stew etc, all in a plural sense. It would be a rare country person (perhaps an obsessive champion vegetable grower) who would ever refer to a carrot in a singular sense.