Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Joseph Fatula wrote:
> From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
> Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
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>>>>A chocolate-covered chocolate biscuit. With three thin layers of
>>>>biscuit. Named after an American race-horse of the same name.
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>>>If they ever try marketing these in the US, I hope they rename it.
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> Around
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>>>here, naming a brown biscuit after a _horse_ would certainly give the
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>>>impression about its use.
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>>You mean like the "Cow Flop" cookies marketed some years ago?
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> Exactly.  Or like the "Calpis" soda in Japan.  In some variants of English
> (mine, usually) "Cal" and "cow" are very similar in sound.  By the way, I
> understand Calpis is a light-colored soda.
Calpis Water is a bizarre canned drink made from fermented milk--AIUI
it's sort of like the liquid that forms on top of yogurt if it's left
sitting for a while. It tastes marginally less disgusting than the name
sounds.