SC - re: late feasts/cooking laurels

[Christi Redeker]

marilyn traber wrote:
> 
> Marisa Herzog wrote:
> 
> >                       RE>pickles
> > 9/24/97
> >
> > So no pickles other than compost?
> > -brid
> > (who also has images of soil additives with this word, and so is
> > muttering
> > "chutney-chutney", which she loves, to counteract the homonym)
> >
> > ==============================================================
> > ==============
> 
>    How about using the french term 'compote'?
> margali
> 

Same word. From the Latin "compositus", inf. noun meaning "to put
together". S's in the middle of words are sometimes dropped in French
pronunciation, as in Hopital and Hotel. The spelling follows on the
pronunciation in this case.

Compote does have a different connotation, though...

Adamantius
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