In the 1780s, people started using rhubarb in baked pies instead of some other fruit, increasing its popularity among the English. In the early 1800s, to keep up with the demand, farmers in Northern England developed an unorthodox method to grow the plant in much greater quantities than ever before.
The Greek roots orthos, meaning “straight” and doxa, meaning “opinion,” help the reader understand that the word unorthodox in paragraph 2 means—
Responses
A unusualunusual
B traditionaltraditional
C preferredpreferred
D practical