Word of the Day: Bell pepper
Most North Americans will call the vegetables in the above picture bell peppers. However, the Japanese use a different word, papurika (Which is from the Dutch language, by the way).
But Japanese only call the brightly-coloured bell peppers papurika, and they call the green bell peppers pīman (Which is from the French language, by the way).
Why? This is an excellent time to prove to you that reading a newspaper is one of the best things you can do in life.
Clicking this link will take you to a Japan Times article called History of the vegetable most hated by Japanese children.
In this article, they explain why the Japanese language has different names for differently coloured bell peppers.
Etymology, the history of words, is very, very interesting.
If you are Japanese and you read this article in English, then you are learning about the etymology of your language, and you are using English as a tool to learn: two birds with one stone as they say.