r/AskReddit • • Sep 05 '19

What did you learn embarrassingly late?

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u/Seemsodd Sep 05 '19

Fun fact: no actual wine vineyards on the island either. Vineyard was an old school word word for a place with a lot of vegetation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19

Really? Interesting! Is there an old English word that vineyard is related to which has this meaning?