"Pick your own mistletoe" question.

bboyminn bboyminn at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 8 07:08:51 UTC 2009


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> One of the signs on the gate of Xeno Lovegood's house says "Pick Your Own Mistletoe". What the word "pick" means here? Is it like "pluck, gather" or is it like "select, choose" :-)? Thanks,
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> zanooda
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Think of it as 'harvest'. 'Harvest your own Mistletoe', or apples, or sweet corn, or strawberries, or whatever. 

When you pick corn, you are harvesting the fruit of the corn plant. When you pick apples, you hare harvesting the fruit of the apple tree.

'Pick your own...' is also very popular in the USA. Pick your own sweet corn, means you walk out into the field and gather it yourself right off the corn stalk. Same with apples or strawberries, it means the consumer harvests the produce themselves directly from the field or orchard, and as a result they get a lower price than if the farmer has to do the harvesting. 

Steve/bboyminn






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