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Thu 27 Jan, 2011 03:35 am
At noon, I’d arrived with cheesecake in hand. As I stood at the front desk in the
lobby, waiting for the receptionist to announce my arrival, a deliveryman handed her a
birthday bouquet. “Thanks!”she squealed. "Oh, I love giant yellow mums."
What are giant yellow mums?
Does it mean chrysanthemum?
Yes, but never give a bouquet of "Mums" to a French person, because in France they are usually used as funereal flowers.
At one time, in written UK English, (I don't know about US English) such a shortened word might have been written with an initial apostrophe thus: 'mums. Others included 'bus (omnibus) and 'plane (aeroplane or airplane).
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