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  • etymology - Why is victuals pronounced vittles? - English Language . . .
    A surprisingly large number of English spellings are back-formed this way; victuals is actually more correct than most since it can eventually be traced back to victus
  • pronunciation vs spelling - Is there a distinction between “victuals . . .
    The result is " vittles " is the correct pronunciation of victuals, and thus vittles is to victuals as nolij is to knowledge: a phonetic representation, although 'vittles' is more readily accepted
  • Collective word for food and drink - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    23 "Victuals" is the correct word for food and drink; or you can use the old English form of the word "vittles" Drink or beverages alone are sometimes referred to as "libations"
  • meaning - What is the term for a word with two quite different . . .
    In The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope has one character say vittles and another say victuals Note that these are not homonyms because only one word is being spelled In saying "two quite different spellings," I am trying to eliminate spelling variants such as today vs to-day, colour vs color, or the example I gave, complete vs compleat
  • Vittler as supplier of food - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The OED turns up vittler as one of various rejected spellings of victualler or victualer (others range from vytaylour to wytteller to vetuler) The word victual referring to food or other provisions comes to English from the Norman French vitaile, from medieval Latin victualis The spelling was later standardized closer to the Latin (both in English and in French— victuaille), hence the
  • pronunciation - How is victualling pronounced? - English Language . . .
    3 Victuals is famously pronounced "vittles" But how is victualling, as in victualling yard, pronounced? I presume the "c" remains silent, but various unsourced and presumably autogenerated pronunciation videos suggest both "vittling" and "vittualing"
  • pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    Our victuals now being vtterly spent, hauing eaten hides 6 or 7 daies, we thought it best to beare back againe for Dominica, the Islands adioyning, knowing that there we might haue some reliefe, whereupon we turned backe for the said Islands
  • Non-phonetic words - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    Unfortunately, this term would apply not only to extreme cases like victuals and colonel, but probably also to words like island and weigh and many others (especially loan words) If you only want to include extreme cases where the pronunciation isn't even mildly predictable from the spelling, you might use the term highly non-phonetic word
  • orthography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    I've always thought that "victual" was a funny word because its spelling and pronunciation are so alien to anything else I know of in the English language The free dictionary explains the origin
  • How did sweet tooth originate? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    From an idiomatic perspective, the expression was coined during the Middle Ages with the simple combination of two common terms The second term, tooth, was already used idiomatically meaning ' taste, liking ' Sweet tooth (n ) : "fondness for sugary stuff," late 14c , from sweet (adj ) + tooth in the sense of "taste, liking" (see toothsome) Toothsome: (adj ): pleasant to the taste," 1560s





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