Posted by PeterH on October 23, 2006 at 19:30:13 from 86.138.73.211 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: ICE CREAM was...was... was... whatever... posted by Ed Kiser on October 23, 2006 at 17:58:58:
What is so obvious to some is totally a surprise to others
Well, not all that obvious, Ed, even for someone who has lived all his life in Britain. I have noticed how the term 'ices', meaning ice cream, disappeared many years ago. As a boy, I clearly remember my grandmother asking 'Would you like an ice?' and I remember wondering silently 'Does she mean ice cream or what?' It was a period alternative for the full term 'ice cream'. It probably disappeared because a number of frozen products, lollies of various sorts, 'snow cones' etc came on the market, and 'ice' was too vague.
And don't forget, Ed, that it is a two-way process. I recall learning on TarBoard about the hidden meaning of 'vanilla'!