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Category Archives: Reference

More Obscure Food Words

December 11, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Like many bookish people, I have a real weakness for rare and obscure words, words with unusual etymologies, and words that were totally common and sensible in a different period […]

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Blog Notes, dictionaries, Language

Obscure food etymology

July 9, 2012by Sara Davis 4 Comments

As consciousness about food and food culture increases, so do the number of neologisms.  These rely on a shared familiarity with the base terms.  Locavore, for example, depends on the […]

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dictionaries, Language, Reference

The definition of food, and other arbitrary agreements

October 3, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I was looking for an Oxford English Dictionary-approved definition of food for one of my dissertation chapters, and came across a few older news reports on food terms recently added […]

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