Question
May 2, 2015 09:23:51 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
If -let or -lette is a diminutive suffix meaning small or petite, how many eggs would you need for an om?
May 2, 2015 09:29:11 #
no propaganda please wrote:
If -let or -lette is a diminutive suffix meaning small or petite, how many eggs would you need for an om?
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Dictionary didn't help, but I would say 6.......however it also could mean 18, depending on what interpretion you use.
May 2, 2015 09:54:57 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
no propaganda please wrote:
If -let or -lette is a diminutive suffix meaning small or petite, how many eggs would you need for an om?
That thought has haunted me every time I fix an omelette for breakfast. :lol: I let my hunger determine the number :!: :wink:
Should I be worried as to the number in my quiches :?: :roll:
May 2, 2015 09:56:42 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
slatten49 wrote:
That thought has haunted me every time I fix an omelette for breakfast. :lol: I let my hunger determine the number :!: :wink:
So then, you have never made a full om have you?
May 2, 2015 09:58:20 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
no propaganda please wrote:
So then, you have never made a full om have you?
Many times...and used wh**ever number of eggs necessary to satisfy my hunger. :mrgreen:
May 2, 2015 10:05:14 #
no propaganda please wrote:
So then, you have never made a full om have you?
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I normally use 2 eggs per person on a omelet, 12 when I have a passel. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
May 2, 2015 14:30:39 #
Mom8052 wrote:
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I normally use 2 eggs per person on a omelet, 12 when I have a passel. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
I normally use 2 eggs per person on a omelet, 12 when I have a passel. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
That would be a humongous omelette. I think I would prefer 12 eggs to be scrambled.
May 2, 2015 14:54:30 #
PoppaGringo wrote:
That would be a humongous omelette. I think I would prefer 12 eggs to be scrambled.
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Lots of onions, ham and cheese. Yum.
May 2, 2015 14:59:37 #
no propaganda please wrote:
If -let or -lette is a diminutive suffix meaning small or petite, how many eggs would you need for an om?
Not certain if this helps at all, but at least interesting to learn the etymology of "omelette"!
Added after posting - my screen shot seems too small to read, so here is the text:
omelet (n.) Look up omelet at Dictionary.com
1610s, from French omelette (16c.), metathesis of alemette (14c.), from alemele "omelet," literally "blade (of a knife or sword)," probably a misdivision of la lemelle (mistaken as l'alemelle), from Latin lamella "thin, small plate," diminutive of lamina "plate, layer" (see laminate). The food so called from its flat shape. The proverb "you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs" (1859) t***slates French On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs. Middle English had hanonei "fried onions mixed with scrambled eggs" (mid-15c.).
May 2, 2015 15:08:37 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
PaulPisces wrote:
Not certain if this helps at all, but at least int... (show quote)
The entire concept of the joke is the derivations of words, but your explanation is better than an examination of number of eggs to feed a crowd.
The question could be t***slated to be if an omelet is a small om, how big is an an om.
May 2, 2015 16:52:08 #
Mom8052 wrote:
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Lots of onions, ham and cheese. Yum.
Lots of onions, ham and cheese. Yum.
Sans ham.
May 2, 2015 18:55:41 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
no propaganda please wrote:
If -let or -lette is a diminutive suffix meaning small or petite, how many eggs would you need for an om?
Depends on the size of the egg. An om made with ostrich eggs is standard, so an om made with chicken eggs would be an om -lette.
May 2, 2015 19:02:58 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
lpnmajor wrote:
Depends on the size of the egg. An om made with ostrich eggs is standard, so an om made with chicken eggs would be an om -lette.
I want'a get a'hold of some ostrich eggs! :thumbup: :P
May 2, 2015 19:40:36 #
slatten49 wrote:
I want'a get a'hold of some ostrich eggs! :thumbup: :P
It is unfortunate the dinosaurs are extinct. You would have loved their eggs and even BBQ'd dinosaur.
May 2, 2015 21:28:48 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
PoppaGringo wrote:
It is unfortunate the dinosaurs are extinct. You would have loved their eggs and even BBQ'd dinosaur.
I suppose a case could be made for my being born in the wrong epoch. :roll: :-)
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