[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Pasties ... was food.

[Neil Ward]

Doreen said:

> As for pumpkin pasties, well, I can't begin to imagine what they
> might be like.  <snip>
>
> While we are on the subject of pasties, I heard Jim Dale pronounce them,
> "past - ees" ... which I found interesting. I had been incorrectly
> pronouncing them "pay - stees" like our similar word, "pastries."

English is such an odd language.  Pasty the noun (the pastry turnover
previously described) is pronounced with a short 'a' sound (as in hat), but
pasty the adjective (meaning, for example "unhealthily pale") is pronounced
with a long 'a', as in paste.  Both meanings are derived from paste
(originally Old French/Medieval past [e acute]).

I guess Draco could be described as pasty-faced and that wouldn't mean that
his face resembles an edible pasty.

Neil, sucking a Lemonhead.....mmmm.
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