JUST PEACHY.Atlanta residents love the peach tree so much they've named 100 streets and countless businesses after it. But how did Atlanta become synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as the fruit trees? Atlanta-Journal Constitution reporter Jim Auchmutey tackled that question. Historical evidence points to a peach tree at the American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. village of Standing Peachtree, Auchmutey writes. In an 1897 account George Washington Collier, Atlanta's oldest living settler and an early postman POSTMAN, Eng. law. A barrister in the court of exchequer, who has precedence in: motions. , said he had seen the tree. Others doubt the story because peach trees are not native to the area. They say peach is a mispronunciation mis·pro·nounce v. mis·pro·nounced, mis·pro·nounc·ing, mis·pro·nounc·es v.tr. To pronounce badly or incorrectly. v.intr. To make a poor pronunciation. of "pitch," the resin from pines. But Collier's account favors the traditional tale. "There was a great big mound of earth heaped up there ... and right on top of it grew a big peach tree," he said. "It bore fruit and was a useful and beautiful tree." |
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