#1: Re: [I] Food // was Skivvies Inventory

Posted on 2006-07-24 06:08:21 by Mike Stevens

Julian Hall wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:34:06 +0100, Peter Ellis wrote:
>
>> Um, exactly not. Where I come from, the key difference between a
>> sandwich and a butty is that a sandwich uses two separate slices of
>> bread, while a butty uses one slice, folded. Rolls, baps, naan
>> bread, pitta bread just don't come into it - a butty is sliced bread
>> folded around a filling, simples as that.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Also in Wales butty is an idiom for friend :) Which can cause ALL
> kinds of confusion if a Welshman refers to an American as 'My butt' :)

Linked to that sense of the word is its use on the canals of Britain, where
a "butty boat" is one (usually a narrowboat) that is towed behind another.
Most usually the butty is an unpowered boat towed behind a powered one, but
the term was in use before the introduction of motors, when two boats towed
by a single horse were described as "buttying".


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