A Yorkshire pudding is itself. It is made of batter, like a pancake, but is not as flat as a pancake. It can often be filled, and is sweet or savoury according as its filling is sweet or savoury. If you filled a large one with meat and veg on one side and summat sweet on t'other it might be a main meal. Very versatile, Yorkshire pudding.axel_knutt wrote: ↑4 Nov 2022, 11:37pm"Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savoury (salty or spicy) dish that is part of the main meal.........Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding,"
Yorkshire Pudding isn't a dessert or a main meal, it's a starter.
English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
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My late Dad was a Yorkshireman and I was born in Leeds, although my Mum is from London. I'm sure she, at various times, served Yorkshire pudding as a starter, with the main course, and as a dessert with syrup.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
How do you fell about auxiliary "do"?
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Said all before, but it really does my head in.
Wednesday
Saturday
etc ....
Plus, none of the days of the week end in a di.
February
Temperature
Veterinarian
To name a few.
Wednesday
Saturday
etc ....
Plus, none of the days of the week end in a di.
February
Temperature
Veterinarian
To name a few.
Mick F. Cornwall
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I speak English.
Heard just now on R4 referring to a secretary.
It was pronounced as sec-ret-try.
Sorry, there are FOUR syllables in secretary ............ sec-ret-ar-y.
Heard just now on R4 referring to a secretary.
It was pronounced as sec-ret-try.
Sorry, there are FOUR syllables in secretary ............ sec-ret-ar-y.
Mick F. Cornwall
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
I shall henceforth pronounce it
se'-cre- tray
thus DOUBLY mickF compliant, I hope!
se'-cre- tray
thus DOUBLY mickF compliant, I hope!
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I don't agree.
Pronouncing it with only three syllables is wrong. Nothing to do with US pronunciations.
It's probably a south-east thing.
Pronouncing it with only three syllables is wrong. Nothing to do with US pronunciations.
It's probably a south-east thing.
Mick F. Cornwall
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
People will be shortening other words eh?
Wensdy instead of Wednesday
Febuary instead of February
Vetrinairan instead of veterinarian
Tempriture instead of temperature
Hence ............ secritry instead of secretary
Wensdy instead of Wednesday
Febuary instead of February
Vetrinairan instead of veterinarian
Tempriture instead of temperature
Hence ............ secritry instead of secretary
Mick F. Cornwall
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A funny thing, in my Chambers Dictionary secretary is spelt out phonetically as
-sek' ri-ta-ri, strange and possibly why it's drifted to 'secritry', I think I pronounce it secritree, but the more I say it the stranger it sounds -
words are like that !
Nu-Fogey