frypan/frying pan
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Feb 11 20:06:37 UTC 2004
At 11:30 AM -0800 2/11/04, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>Still mystified, as we use one almost every day. Are we talking
>about different things?
>Fritz
Are you talking about the kind of device that you plug in? In the
old days, some apartments-- including one I lived in--and dorm rooms
allowed electric hot plates but had no stoves. In particular, I was
living in the mid-1970s on the lower floor of a house in an area
zoned for one-family houses and the only legal kitchen was upstairs.
So we used an electric frying pan. I remember them being especially
good for paella, but that was the last time I remember using one. In
terms of NON-electric frying pans, I do call the black iron ones
"cast-iron skillets" or "frying pans". The non-stick teflon ones are
frying pans, never skillets.
Larry
>
>>>> flanigan at OHIOU.EDU 02/11/04 09:46AM >>>
>Both. I was just joking about the electric kind, since I haven't seen one
>for years. But with or without "electric," I would always say "frying
>pan"--never fry pan, or spider, or even skillet (unless maybe a clerk in a
>store used the last term, in which case I'd follow suit to accommodate
>her/him).
>
>At 09:27 AM 2/11/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>>I'm somewhat mystified by the question. Maybe I have something else in
>>mind from what you are thinking. Are you talking about the words 'frying
>>pan' or the object itself? If the object, what do people use now instead?
>>Fritz
>>
>> >>> flanigan at OHIOU.EDU 02/11/04 07:59AM >>>
>>Gee, does anyone still use electric fry(ing) pans? If I did, it'd be with
>>-ing.
>>
>>At 07:43 AM 2/11/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>> >Both my wife and I use 'electric skillet,' but neither of us uses
>> >'skillet' for the non-electric thingy. That's a frying pan--oddly not a
>> >skillet. But if I did have to use skillet, it would be for the old,
>> >black, cast iron ones, not the shiney, stainless steel or aluminum gadgets.
>> >Fritz
>> >
>> > >>> faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU 02/11/04 06:49AM >>>
>> >I have that same echo of "electric skillet" in my head, but can't
>> >imagine where it came from, as "skillet" is one of those exotic terms
>> >that I might have learned in the first dialectology unit in my intro
>> >linguistics class.
>> >
>> >Dennis R. Preston said:
>> > >Well I'm older than both of you (so you can imagine the incredible
>> > >authority this must have). I began saying electric frying pan when
>> > >the silly things were introduced, reduced it to electric frypan, and
>> > >now use frypan exclusively to refer to the electric thing. A ringer
>> > >in my usage may have been the fact that I had both skillet and frying
>> > >pan before the electric goodies, and, if I recall correctly, had a
>> > >slight preference for frying pan for the oldtime cast iron type and a
>> > >slight preference for skillet for stainless steel, aluminum, and
>> > >other instantiations of the genre. (No, didn't have no spiders.)
>> > >Oddly, since the electric ones looked more like the latter, I never
>> > >used electric skillet, although I understand it exists (or existed)
>> > >and may have an echo of it in my head.
>> > >
>> > >dInIs (whose echoes in his head seem to increase)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >Sam Clements said:
>> > >according to OED, notes that the electric implement's launch prompted the
>> > >use of "frypan".
>> > >
>> > > Is there a bifurcation like this in AmE? What is the status of "frying
>> > pan"
>> > >nowadays?
>> > >
>> > >I'm 59 and remember when "electric frypan" was a phrase in the 1960's I
>> > >haven't heard it since. And I'd bet that most Americans would say the
>> same.
>> > >And, you needed that "electric" before the word "frypan."
>> > >
>> > >"Frying pan" is the only thing you hear in the last 25+ years. IMHO.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >I'm a bit younger than you are, and I don't recall the electric
>> > >version ever being called anything other than an "electric frying
>> > >pan".
>> >
>> >--
>> >=========================================================================
>> =====
> > >Alice
>> Faber faber at haskins.yale.edu
>> >Haskins Laboratories tel: (203)
>> 865-6163 x258
>> >New Haven, CT 06511 USA fax (203)
>> >865-8963
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