Two familiar phenomena in English usage illustrated from food and cooking: a partially conventionalized t/d-deletion in scramble eggs for standard scrambled eggs; and the use of stainless (for stainless steel) in stainless bowl and stainless flatware — a beheading. Scramble eggs. Drawn to my attention at breakfast on December 7th at the Peninsula Creamery in Palo Alto, … Continue reading Usage notes from the kitchen