Palerider Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Here is the assignment.....everyone go out and buy sherbert or sherbet or sorbet and report back. Thank you !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiritDragon Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 I have no love for the stuff, so I simply avoid using the word altogether because I am not sure. As a child I picked up on calling it sure-bert, but when I learned to read I noticed that the packaging always spelled it wrong, you'd think a company selling sherbert would know how to spell it. After continuing to see the incorrect spelling of sherbet pop up, and hearing others pronounce it so wrong sounding, I just decided to avoid the word. Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarVortex Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 I'm with SpiritDragon on this one. I never have to pronounce it because I never ask for it. If you get one of those fruit superfood juices (Odwalla or Naked Juice or something similar) you can pour it into a dish and freeze it. You have to time it precisely, because you want something like frozen slush, but if you get it right it's delicious and is far superior to any telestial desserts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravin Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 I have no love for the stuff, so I simply avoid using the word altogether because I am not sure. As a child I picked up on calling it sure-bert, but when I learned to read I noticed that the packaging always spelled it wrong, you'd think a company selling sherbert would know how to spell it. After continuing to see the incorrect spelling of sherbet pop up, and hearing others pronounce it so wrong sounding, I just decided to avoid the word. Much like you'd expect the military to spell colonel like it's pronounced... Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Going to party as if it's sherbert day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Going to party as if it's sherbert day. What a way to bring in the New Year.....Lol Crypto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiritDragon Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Much like you'd expect the military to spell colonel like it's pronounced...Yeah, what is a left-enant as well? Americans have solved this one :) lew-tenant makes so much more sense. Vort and mordorbund 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Here is the assignment.....everyone go out and buy sherbert or sherbet or sorbet and report back. Thank you !!I really want to..... no room in the freezer tho XD Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome1232 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 So this thread has led to my Wife and I finding we, along with everyone else, pronounce an awful lot of things wrong!Bruschetta? isn't Brewsheta it is Brewsketa, We've started picking random words and finding out the pronounciations, it's fun. How I love our hodgepodge language lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Yeah, what is a left-enant as well? Americans have solved this one :) lew-tenant makes so much more sense.U-S-A!U-S-A!U-S-A!U-S-A! Blackmarch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Bruschetta? isn't Brewsheta it is Brewsketa, This is where serving a mission to Italy helps you at parties. jerome1232, Blackmarch and Crypto 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I have a tendency to pronounce the ending of most words that are 2 or more syllables and that end in "et" as "ay" (Long a)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Here I thought this topic melted away.... jerome1232 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crypto Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I think I just may pick up some Sherber....Sorbet from the store today. This thread made me a bit hungry. Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa Pa Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 What do you call that fruit-juice-based, ice-cream-like frozen confection? It's spelled "sherbet". When you say "Sherbet tastes good," does it sound like "Sure, but tastes good" or "Sure, Bert tastes good"? (Sesame Street's Ernie with fangs, I guess.)As a child, I said "sure bert", and I think I even spelled it "sherbert". Sometime in my adolescence, I figured out that the second "r" wasn't there in the word.I used to laugh at the British pronunciation and spelling of "aluminium", but it's actually more consistent with how we name the other elements, and it was a neologism in any case. Why not use the "-ium" suffix? Not sure why we Americans decided to drop that last "i". Maybe because we aren't Americians.When I was in fourth grade, my teacher, a sixty-five-year-old lady who was retiring at the end of the school year and was doubtless from the Midwest somewhere, pronounced our state's name "Worshington". That drove me crazy, even as a nine-year-old. (Especially since we lived in Idaho.)(Just kidding about the Idaho thing.)I just announce it "ice cream". :) Crypto and mordorbund 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahone Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Not sure what everyone else has been talking about but when I think sherbet, im thinking of this:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder) jerome1232 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I think I just may pick up some Sherber....Sorbet from the store today. This thread made me a bit hungry.Oh sure rub it in now.....Lol!!! Crypto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crypto Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Oh sure rub it in now.....Lol!!!Well when it melts away (or better yet is eaten) It's time to get more of course Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Well when it melts away (or better yet is eaten) It's time to get more of course Very true !! Crypto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome1232 Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) Not sure what everyone else has been talking about but when I think sherbet, im thinking of this:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder)I've seen that stuff mentioned on website when I was looking up sherbet (due to this thread), I didn't realize the UK was one of the countries that calls that sherbet.I'm pretty sure no Americans (myself included) will not know what the heck that is. I'm not sure you can even pick it up anywhere... Edited January 8, 2015 by jerome1232 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I've seen that stuff mentioned on website when I was looking up sherbet (due to this thread), I didn't realize the UK was one of the countries that calls that sherbet. I'm pretty sure no Americans (myself included) will know what the heck that is. I'm not sure you can even pick it up anywhere...I am positive while serving my mission in England I had some sherbet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I am positive while serving my mission in England I had some sherbet. How did you pronounce it? Palerider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 How did you pronounce it?Just the way the British folks do. mordorbund 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connie Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Palerider: I want you to know that it was because of you and this thread that i bought sherbet last week. Raspberry and orange. And it was delicious. So thanks. :) Palerider, jerome1232 and Crypto 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Palerider: I want you to know that it was because of you and this thread that i bought sherbet last week. Raspberry and orange. And it was delicious. So thanks. :)You are welcome....hope everyone liked it. Crypto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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