Thanks, Faldage.

When you have a chance, would you check out Jackie's question about the Greek word for eye? I tried to google oion and eye, but didn't have any luck in making a direct connection between the two.

I like the connection between onion and large pearl--some of those large onion pearls are a lot larger than others, and, of course, we have "pearl onions," which could be considered to be a redundancy: pearl pearl or pearl large pearl.