Sherbet or Sherbert

[English Chick]

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Thats it!!! I couldn't remember the name...yum..

LOL! Here we call those "Lick Em Dip Ems" or I think thats what they're called....

little white candy stick that you lick and put in a kool-aid powdery substance...

I've always known it as Sherbet - but I always say it as "sherbert"

go figure

aha something else we have in common then keeper....sherbet dib dabs.....

 

[Backyard Buddies]

I have a friend who gets mad every time I say sherbet. She insists it's sherbert and that I'm saying it wrong.

 

[debilorrah]

My fiance is the same way - I am wrong no mater what when it comes to this. Then he get all irritated because I find it funny!

 

[menageriemama]

I consulted my Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations and here is what it says:

"Sherbet (SHUR-bet) Sherbet does not rhyme with Herbert. The reduplicated SHUR-burt is a bad habit of childhood- like liberry for library and pacific for specific- that some poor souls never manage to shake. The variant spelling sherbert which you will find in some dictionaries, is also erroneous, says WNW3 (1997). I wholeheartedly agree."

That said, I always called it sherbert

 

[MissPrissy]

According to the American Heritage dictionary sherbert and sherbet are 2 different things.

sher·bet (shûr'bĭt)
n.
Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice.
also sherbert Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.

also sher·bert (-bûrt') A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin.

The American Heritage

Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright

2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

I have always called the frozen treat sherbert. In grade school we always had rainbow sherbert.​

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

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Yes, like Jumbo Shrimp... lol

 

[debilorrah]

Why do all the carton's in the store say SHERBET?

 

[chickorama]

I think it's spelled sherbet and pronounced sherbert.

 

[debilorrah]

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Well, no that soultion would make everyone happy.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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Uh oh. And, Houghton Mifflin is one of the leading producers of educational curriculum in this country.

I wonder if this is one of those things that the slang how now become the real thing.

BTW, I looked up the definition in one of my grandmother's old cookbooks and it was Sherbet back then. And, on my spell checker, if I type Sherbert it is corrected to Sherbet.