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Buttery

1/10/2025

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Today is dictionary day.  I closed my eyes and turned the dictionary this way and that and picked a word at random.  The word my finger fell on was so unexpected.  “Buttery.” I like buttery. 
Better yet I like butter.  In fact within the last 12 hours I had toast with just butter on.  Not just a smidgeon of butter but laid on thick.  Ok I know that is not real healthy, but it is in my mind real nice.
Yet I did not know buttery could mean so many things.  I saw that not only does it contain or taste like butter, it can mean a room where I can buy meals and drinks.  Or it can be a storeroom for liquors.  In fact, the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) said there are 7 meanings of buttery.  I went to look at them but it wanted more details about me than I wanted to give.  So I can only imagine all the meanings.
I did think of the ad that says, “I just want milk that tastes like real milk.”  I am happy for all these meanings of buttery, but I just want butter that tastes like real butter.
One thing the OED did say was that buttery occurs about 0.2 times per million words in modern written English.  Does knowing that change my life?  I would say not but I never know. I could be captured by people that want to do me in and get asked (and risk losing my life if I do not know) “how many times does the word buttery occur per million words in written English?  I could say 0.2 and be allowed to walk free.  But that is not likely.  I am back now.
Another thing stated was the earliest known use of the adjective buttery.  Just for people that may have always wondered that, and for those like me that have never wondered it, it was in the Middle English period (1150-1500)
But my mind keeps going back to butter on toast, or bread, or in cooking, or on many things.  I cannot remember if it was an ad or an ad for something else but for me things do taste better with butter.
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