take-out etc. (was: kosher & halal)

[Drew Danielson]

I think of "carry-out" with "beer", and "take-out" with "food"... this
may be a localism having to do with Pennsylvania law on alcohol sales,
where the amount of beer one is allow to 'carry out' of a bar or bottle
shop at one time is explicitly delimited (and enforced) at 192 oz. at a
time - two six-packs of pounders.  You can buy as much as you want, but
you have to make 2 trips back to the car if you buy 193 oz. of beer.

grocery stores and conveniences don't sell carry-out, however, since
beer must not be sold from these sorts of establishments...
.


"Peter A. McGraw" wrote:
>
> BTW, what ever happened to "carry-out"?  I first ran across "take-out" on a
> visit to Canada many years ago.  It struck me as a very distinctive
> Canadianism.  I don't know when it happened, but somehow in the intervening
> years, "take-out" seems to have completely replaced "carry-out" in the U.S.
>
> (While America sleeps, that notorious Canadian linguistic imperialism
> strikes again! :)
>
> Peter Mc.
>
> --On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:07 PM +0000 Lynne Murphy
> <lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK> wrote:
>
> > --On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:02 am -0500 Laurence Horn
> > <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >> (or get it as
> >> take-out, or whatever the British word for that is)
> >
> > "take-away"
> >
> >
> > Lynne
> >
>
> ****************************************************************************
>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu

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