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

[David Bergdahl]

I would hazzard a guess: that "carry-out" is limited to package stores
selling alcohol; in order words, a parallel to "the pill" which became the
euphemism for the oral contraceptive.

--On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:00 AM -0800 "Peter A. McGraw"
<pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> 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.