Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)
Charles Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Jul 31 12:05:21 UTC 2006
Some raw Google stats:
"hashed brown potatoes"--9,190
"hashed brown"--25,000
"hash browned potatoes"--11,100
"hash browned"--14,700 (Including, for example, "potatoes, hash browned").
Assuming that the latter two constructions represent folk-eytomologizings of the former two, they have gained considerable traction (as it's voguish to say), with the reduced nominal form "hash browns" perhaps being intermediate.
"hash brown"--416,000
"hash brown potatoes"--98,300
--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:03:01 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>And, as usual, Charlie, I agree with you. I've always made the same assumption.
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 7/28/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'd always supposed that the full, spelled-out form would read "hash-browned potatoes"!
>>
>> --Charlie
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