Monday 4 May 2009

The etymology of porridge

Maeve and I went shopping today.
And made a GPS trace of Ballyogan Dunnes car park for OpenStreetMap.
We got loads of stuff.
Need food.
We have used lots of staples at home and Fionn's Mum & Dad are visiting Wed+Thur this week to mind kids in afternoons while Fionn has a training course in East Point (Where I'm working in Sun).
Maeve did a really good job as usual helping especially unloading stuff from trolley onto conveyor belt while I packed.
As well as minding shopping list.

Anyway, porridge is a funny word. I was wondering about the origins of it.
Porridge is from French/Latin pottage - leek soup. And associated a little later with oatmeal in Scotland.
Ahhh, "pease porridge hot" ? maybe
Fionn is good at making leek soup.
I made it yesterday.
Lots of potato.
Quite yummy.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=porridge
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/858168 "a type of porridge made from peas, pease pudding" and ""pease" was treated as a mass noun, similar to "oatmeal""

And yoghurt (while we're trying to remember which item of shopping I was thinking about the etymology of!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#Etymology_and_spelling
From Turkish, related to word for to knead and dense/thick

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sausage boooring meaning from salted

Interesting, on OSM after editing you can see the edits appear at further out zoom levels first.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.2593&lon=-6.1957&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF

Good weekend.
Long one with May bank holiday.
We stayed in Dub, relaxed slightly in a busy way.
Caught up on some housework.
Cycled with girls to Balawley park (trailgators).
Fionnuala did gardening work.
On Mon I added openable nest box to chicken coop.

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