herb twopence
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English
Etymology
Suggested by Maud Grieve to be due to the leaves looking like rows of paired pennies.[1]
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Noun
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- Have you one name? I have many: / “Wandering Sailor”, “Creeping Jenny”, / “Money-wort”, and of the rest / “Strings of Sovereigns” is the best, / (That’s my yellow flowers, you see.) / “Meadow Runagates” is me, / And “Herb Twopence”.]
References
- ^ Kevin Flude (2023 June 14) “And Did Those Feet: the Past brought to Life”, in June 14th Moneywort, archived from the original on February 22, 2024: “Mrs Grieve suggests that the two pence idea comes from the leaves which ‘look like rows of pennies, and the golden flowers which give the name String of Sovereigns.’”