Fruit (slang) fruit" (and rarely "old tin of fruit") to the 1920s in Britain possibly deriving from the phrase "fruit of the womb". In the United States, however, both "fruit" and "fruitcake" are seen as negative with fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person). A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words "costard" (a type of apple) and "monger", i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall. Costermongers have existed in London
Bill Sweeting Bill Sweeting Alan John ("Bill") Sweeting MBE (3 November 1918 - 9 July 2016) was an Australian historian and museum administrator. Sweeting was born in Penrith, New South Wales on 3 November 1918. Sweeting joined the Second Australian Imperial Force on 23 July 1940 and was posted to the 2/4th Field Ambulance. He served with this medical unit in the Middle East during 1941, and returned to Australia with it February 1942. From July of that year he and the 2/4th Field Ambulance took part in the Kokoda Track campaign. In April 1944 Sweeting was appointed official historian Gavin Long's