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Paynesgrey:
"Vanilla"?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I'm using "laity" in the one of my projects where it's relevant. Because I've grumped quite a bit about the distinction between "layman" (not a scientist) and "lay person" (not clergy) in contemporary English, so the temptation to make the confusion even worse in that fictional universe is not resistable.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: paynesgrey on September 11, 2007, 01:23:37 AM ---"Vanilla"?
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Ready salted.
(I come from family that refers to icecream as ready-salted and crisps/chips as vanilla).
Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on September 11, 2007, 06:32:36 PM ---Ready salted.
(I come from family that refers to icecream as ready-salted and crisps/chips as vanilla).
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Er... what?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Shecky on September 11, 2007, 06:39:02 PM ---Er... what?
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OK, maybe this is a Hyperborea*-specific thing. Where I grew up, vanilla was your basic standard ice-cream flavour, what you got if you asked for ice-cream and did not specify; likewise, if you asked for crisps - the things USAns call chips, but what we call chips USAns call fries - without specifying what flavour, the default is ready-salted. Hence a mildly silly family like mine would swap the two around.
There is an unhelpful failure mode here where someone is asked what sort of sugar they want and says "vanilla", meaning normal plain sugar (as opposed to, say, icing sugar) and goes to the cupboard and finds the jar of sugar with the vanilla pods in which is actively vanilla-flavoured sugar and not necessarily the same thing.
The bit about "chocolate and strawberry and vanilla" in Good Omens is an accurate represetation of Hyperborean life as of a couple of decades ago.
*Yes, if you want a name covering both Britain and Ireland with no political subtext whatsoever, you have to go back as far as Strabo.
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