LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 13.JUL.2001 (02) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Etymology"

> From: Jonathan Riddell <jr050 at jriddell.org>
> Subject: Etymology questions
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> I've noticed Americans using the word jelly where most Scots now say jam.
> Of course it should really be jeely.

I'd say "jeely" is still quite widespread (sorry... :) in Scots,
and I've never thought of it as the same thing as jam. Jam is
unstrained, whereas jeely is made by straining the boiled fruit/
sugar/pectin through a heavy muslin bag overnight so that it has
a smooth, translucent, jelly-like texture.

By far the most usual is "brummle jeely" (brummle=blackberry),
which in these days of factory rather than home-produced goods
is sold cognate-wise as "bramble jelly" even in England - a
definite use of Scots there as both cognates mean different
things in British English!

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
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                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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