Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Heaven. Especially served hot.
I was hungry before I saw that, now my mouth is salivating like a starved homeless man looking at a roast 1 foot in front of him.
Wherein we ask each other dialect questions we don't quite understand
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I was hungry before I saw that, now my mouth is salivating like a starved homeless man looking at a roast 1 foot in front of him.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
So, a slight change in topic while keeping to the thread;
Hospital and Surgeon vs The Hospital and The doctor
It almost seems Hospital and Surgeon are proper nouns with out the "The" added before them as normal nouns. Is that correct? Do Brits use these terms?
Hospital and Surgeon vs The Hospital and The doctor
It almost seems Hospital and Surgeon are proper nouns with out the "The" added before them as normal nouns. Is that correct? Do Brits use these terms?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking whether we say "I'm going to hospital?" as opposed to "I'm going to the hospital?"
Yes, we do. Like "I'm going to school" or "I'm going to jail", the definite article is not spoken when referring to it as a general state. When referring to the actual specific location, though, we say "the prison" and "the school" and "the hospital". "I applied for a cleaning job at the hospital" is correct, as is "he has been contracted to do some repairs to the prison roof".
You do the same thing as us with school, college, jail, and other words. You have a special exception for hospital, though. We don't.
We don't say "I'm going to doctor" though.
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Heaven. Especially served hot.
Many cultures have some kind of dish that is essentially meat in a baked bread.
My favorite take, these days, is the kolache- Texas has a large number of Czech descendants, so those things are everywhere. Favorite type of kolache: spiced sausage with Swiss cheese and sauerkraut, especially the ones from The Czech Stop in West, Texas, right off of I-35, just north of Waco.
Amusingly, because Texas is surprisingly diverse in demographics, you're more likely to get your kolaches* from Mexicans, Vietnamese or Korean bakers than Czechs in most of the major cities.
* and almost every other ethnic food as well: those groups- especially the Mexicans- are found cooking in almost every kitchen around. Because of this, I've been saying for years that the next great fusion chef or cuisine is going to come out of one of Texas' cities.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Do you say going to surgeon?
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Re: verbing a noun:
would that be like friending someone on facebook?
would that be like friending someone on facebook?
No. We will say "going into surgery", though. Surgery being the state, not the action.
Table the motion. Shelve that idea. Action that plan!
Tangentially, not an observation of dialect, but of culture...I just stumbled on this bit excerpted from a piece about a Danish author who focused on/wrote about/codified the Danish cultural trope of Jante Law:
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