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Cultivars (domesticated varieties) have been selected by humans in the last 10,000 years and inevitably represent a subset of the variation found in their wild ancestors.
The strange European comings and goings were observed by native peoples whose ancestors had preceded these “discoverers” by at least 12,000, some of them 55,000, years.
Names beginning with Bel- or Bello(bello beautiful) are also historical gifts: someone called Bellofatto (fatto made, put together), probably has ancestors that were a good-looking lot.
If Perot's message appealed to Yankee and Nordic progressives in the northern tier, his anti-establishment populism, and no doubt his flamboyant persona, appealed to the kind of voters whose ancestors had cheered on Huey P. Long and "Sockless Jerry" Simpson.
So we don hectares, litres, and milligrams—but not, I hope, without turning to nod goodbye respectfully to the earliest form of English bequeathed by our ancestors.