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
Marjorie Sweeting Oxford University 1954–87. During 1948, Sweeting became a PhD candidate who wrote her thesis based on "The Landforms of the Carboniferous Limestone of Ingleborough District, N.W. Yorkshire". In 1951 Marjorie Sweeting was appointed Lecturer and Director of studies in Geography at St. Hugh's College, 1983 she was named the Acting head of the school. Sweeting served on the Karst Commission of the International Geographical Union, where she came to work on a new project titled, "Man's Impact on the Karst". Additionally, Sweeting worked with Gordon Warwick in support of the International Speleological Union where she was in charge of the