[Sca-cooks] mead
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 3 15:27:39 PDT 2010
Suey wrote:
>I think we are splitting hairs here. Can "aguamiel" be called mead as it
>is not alcoholic?
We are not splitting hairs.
Because i imagine that your desire is to communicate well in your blog.
Regardless of the past history of the word, i know that in Modern
American English, mead is an alcoholic drink. If your desire is to
convey that these honey waters were alcoholic, perhaps mead is a
suitable word. But since i, at least, doubt they were, i think mead
is very much the wrong word.
--
Someone sometimes called Urtatim
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