Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 3, 2005, 0:29 |
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:07:47 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:42:31 -0600, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Pascal, I think we've already determined that in fact the word is
>> not common in Great Britain, either, based on Ray's comments and
>> my googling statistics. In fact, I just checked google.co.uk, just
>> to make sure google.com wasn't giving me skewed numbers, and it
>> agreed entirely with the earlier search, providing only 11.3k hits for
>> champignon on English language pages in the UK.
>
> "Only"?
Yes, "only". Compare the 11.3 thousand UK ghits for "champignon" with the
429,000 UK ghits for "mushroom". It's a statistical anomaly, at best.
The most widespread use seems to be to discuss a specific breed of
mushroom (as discussed days ago). Beyond that, its occurence in the field
is marginal, if that.
My guess is that even a college-educated English person would not
recognise the word without help.
Paul