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Andy M.

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Why is it we say, "tuna fish"...

...but we don't say, "beef mammal"...

...or "chicken bird"?
 
why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

what do people in china call their good plates?

if olive oil is squeezed from olives, and peanut oil is squeezed from peanuts, what is baby oil made from?
 
Why do we call it "beef" instead of "cow", and "pork" instead of "pig", "venison" instead of "deer"?

Chicken, turkey, duck, and fish are just that.

The words come from French: beef from boeuf = ox, pork from porc = pig, and venison from venison (old French) = game. Poultry is from poulet = chicken and veal from veau = calf.

At one time French was the "court language" in England and a number of European countries. Upper class folks spoke French and used the fancy French words for food.

Regular folks, who dealt with live animals, used the ordinary English terms.

Reading and writing wasn't common, so I guess only the rich had written recipes.
 
Not sure of the origin of this, ( I wish i could write this kind of stuff) but it's interesting.......
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP...
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP! :LOL:
 
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