Timeline for “A mirror” and “mirror” (without “a”)
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| Aug 26, 2021 at 10:30 | answer | added | Max Hay | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 2:25 | comment | added | RonJohn | "An apple is ground or sliced, “an” can be omitted." As a native speaker of English, I strongly dispute that assertion. Or you need to give more detail in your question than four terse lines. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 18:55 | answer | added | Geoff Davids | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1430228411914596354 | ||
| Aug 24, 2021 at 16:08 | comment | added | alephzero | @Mari-LouA Sacrilege! Making cider is the only thing apples are good for. Eating them is just a waste of good fermentation material. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 16:07 | comment | added | alephzero | @Mari-LouA "ground apple" is uncommon in speech and in recipes - Not in French, Dutch, Danish, etc. "Pommes frites" are not fried apples! | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @R.M. Thank you, I had not thought about the possibility of making apple juice / cider. Still it is worthwhile pointing out that "ground apple" is uncommon in speech and in recipes, as you also mentioned. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 13:12 | comment | added | R.M. | @Mari-LouA If one passes apples through a device with a similar sort of action to the one used to make ground (BrEng minced) meat (e.g. to prepare the apples for a cider press) in AmEng it would be acceptable to use the verb "to grind" for the process, and the adjective "ground" to describe the result. (It's a grinder. It grinds things. They come out ground.) It's not normally done with apples, so it's not a common usage, but not one objectionable enough to make comment. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 11:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 24, 2021 at 10:37 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Apples can be chopped, cooked, pureed, and if raw grated or sliced. You ground (mince in BrEng) meat, seeds, grains, and even coconut but not apples. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 7:12 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 5:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 24, 2021 at 5:41 | answer | added | gotube♦ | timeline score: 23 | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 4:25 | history | edited | user142460 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2021 at 3:49 | answer | added | bak1936 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 3:41 | history | asked | user142460 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |