Re: "sherbert"

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:47:42 GMT, Jim Lawton
<usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:26:45 -0800, Edna Hosner <ednahosner@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Why is sherbet pronounced that way by most americans?
>>Is it only americans?
>
>It's helpful if you formulate your questions in full. On first reading,
>I had no idea what you were talking about. "pronounced what way?".
>
>There are over 500,000 hits on Google for "sherbert", over 2,000,000 for
>"sherbet".
>
>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sherbet has :-
>
>1. also sher·bert (-bûrt) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit
>juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or
>gelatin.
>2. Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice.
>
>When I was a child in Yorkshire, "sherbert" (always pronounced that way)
>was a fizzy sugar powder which formed the basis of quite a few sweets.
>
>One was a tube of sherbert which you sucked up through a liquorice
>straw, then there were Sherbert Dabs, and "Flying Saucers" which were
>rice-paper flying saucers filled with sherbert.
>
>I have no idea how it was spelled on the labels - if indeed there ever
>were any.

Jim,

<Lancashire Alert>

At the Old Sweet Shop in Morecambe, sweet-toothed persons can purchase
the items you mention (note the spellings):

http://www.oldsweetshop.com/trolleyed/17/

The Old Sweet Shop » Big Kids

Remember these?

Sherbert Fountain (pack)
Flying Saucers
Swizzels Double Dip (Sherbet Dabs)

and much much more.

They will dispatch by surface or air mail to .

http://www.oldsweetshop.com/about.htm
If you thought you could no longer obtain the confectionary of
your childhood memories you will find it here. On our site you
will only find top quality branded products not cheap substitutes,
from sherbert lemons to bullseyes there is very little we don't
have, even if you don't see it here, we are only an email away!
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
.

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