Re: Smash was Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)

andrew wrote:

> I have recently heard and started using "smashed potatoes" meaning mashed
> potatoes with the skins left on.  A useful description because it's one
> of my favourite ways of cooking potatoes, but where does it originate
> from and how recently.
I suspect it is a permanent possibility of the language, something
that occurs to many people separately in different places.
Similarly with "fright" < "fried" potatoes.

--
        John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
                        -- Coleridge / Politzer