alexknibb
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Post by alexknibb on Sept 23, 2008 14:06:39 GMT
Hi all.
I was chastised gently (with a riding crop) by a colleague at work for using the word "flavourful" rather than the preferred "flavoursome".
Both appear to be words according to my dictionary and the internet, so is either one more "correct" than the other, or are they both ok?
Thanks, Al.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Sept 23, 2008 17:31:21 GMT
Tricky. I feel flavoursome is more traditional (aka old-fashioned) and flavourful is more of an advertiser's word.
No evidence to hand, though.
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Post by Tone on Sept 23, 2008 20:35:04 GMT
And why not use flavorous? (And you get the thrill of dropping the "u"!)
SOED flavorous a.L17. [f. FLAVOUR n. + -OUS.] Full of flavour; pleasing to the taste and smell.
Tone
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Glyn
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Post by Glyn on Sept 25, 2008 9:07:10 GMT
There's also the u-retentive "flavoury".
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Post by Alan Palmer on Sept 25, 2008 14:40:59 GMT
Or the much shorter "tasty".
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alexknibb
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Post by alexknibb on Sept 26, 2008 8:58:40 GMT
Thanks very much for your help, chaps! I'm now off to get a flavoursome/flavourful/flavorous/flavoury/tasty gingerbread man from the kitchen.
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Post by Vadim on Sept 26, 2008 9:27:30 GMT
Thanks very much for your help, chaps! I'm now off to get a flavoursome/flavourful/flavorous/flavoury/tasty gingerbread man from the kitchen. I've just had a flavoursome/flavourful/flavorous/flavoury/tasty warm pork pie with my morning cup-of-tea (well I do work in manufacturing!) ;D.
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Post by Geoff on Oct 1, 2008 7:05:59 GMT
I guess some of those are new to a few of us - I'll admit to knowing only two: flavoursome and tasty. What about characterful, then? This from a promotion I received in the mail today: Today the National Trust's specialist wine service invites you to enjoy better and more characterful wines, direct from the vineyard. I guess they ('wine buffs') do speak of wines having 'character', but I've never heard of ' characterful' before, have you? So the wine is full of character. What does that mean, anyway?
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alexknibb
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Post by alexknibb on Oct 1, 2008 7:32:48 GMT
Ooh, I've just had a thought. Could something be your 'flavourite'? I.e. the one which you feel tastes the best?
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 1, 2008 11:49:16 GMT
Ooh, I've just had a thought. Could something be your 'flavourite'? I.e. the one which you feel tastes the best? Definitely. Been around a while - wife used to use flavourite when she was my wife (and that's a few decades gone).
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Post by Anon on Aug 28, 2014 8:13:40 GMT
Hi all. I was chastised gently (with a riding crop) by a colleague at work for using the word "flavourful" rather than the preferred "flavoursome". Both appear to be words according to my dictionary and the internet, so is either one more "correct" than the other, or are they both ok? Thanks, Al. I would suggest that adding the suffix -ful turns the word into a subjective meaning (it happened to me and this is what I think), while the suffix -some is objective and is attaching meaning to the object.
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Post by matt on May 29, 2015 21:58:11 GMT
Flavoursome is correct flavorful is for the Americans because they are so unteachable.
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Post by Tone on May 30, 2015 19:53:12 GMT
What, pray, is "unteachable" about utilizing a legitimate variation?
Tone
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Post by Twoddle on May 31, 2015 21:49:35 GMT
Flavoursome is correct flavorful is for the Americans because they are so unteachable. It's rather difficult to get the full flavour of that sentence, owing to the glaring lack of punctuation.
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Post by Tone on Jun 8, 2015 21:25:27 GMT
Twoddle, how does a "lack" do any "glaring"?
Tone
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