11 edible words that raise questions

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Some food and drink names are not easy to spell or pronounce correctly.

Preferred options are indicated according to the dictionary of Maya Zarva "Russian word stress". It is geared towards media professionals and provides options that meet a strict standard.

1. Curd or curd?

There is a fierce debate about this word, but both sides are right: you can say this and that.

However, the “curd” variant corresponds to the strict norm. It is he who is recommended to be used by media workers.

2. Meatballs or meatballs?

Here, too, dictionaries allow both options. But tefteli is considered preferable.

By the way, there is not the word "meatball", not the word "meatball" in the dictionaries. To designate one piece, an affectionate "meatball" is used.

3. Horns or horns?

In the name of this pasta, the emphasis is on the last syllable - "horns."

4. Manty or Manty?

It is preferable to say "manty", but the dictionaries also have a variant of "manty".

By the way, the singular form is "mant".

5. Truffles or truffles?

Again, both are valid. However, it is recommended to use "truffles".

6. Sauces or sauces?

That's right - "sauces". However, some dictionaries also give a variant of "sauce", which is only allowed in colloquial speech.

7. Is it butter or butter cream?

"Oily" is derived from "butter", and "buttered" is from "butter". Accordingly, the first means "of oil, related to oil," and the second means "soaked, coated, oiled." In cooking, both are possible. Butter cream is made from butter and buttercream is oiled.

8. Is the whiskey expensive or expensive?

Many insist that "whiskey" is a masculine word because it is defined by the generic word "drink". However, cocoa and wine are also drinks, but their names are neuter. So this kind of logic is not always appropriate.

"Whiskey" can be either masculine or neuter. Moreover, the latter is preferable.

9. Ice martini or ice cold?

In this case, both options are also acceptable - both masculine and neuter. Therefore, choose the one that you like best.

10. Is the coffee black or black?

The masculine gender corresponds to the strict literary norm. However, in colloquial speech it is permissible to use "coffee" as a neuter word. And no, these are not modern innovations: the possibility of the neuter genus was mentioned in the dictionary of Dmitry Ushakov, which came out in the first half of the twentieth century.

11. Latte or latte?

The word is similar to French, so I really want to put an emphasis on the last syllable. However, it came to us from Italian, where latte is "milk". The correct stress is the same as in the source language - “latte”.