I can't take it anymore. (speech, quote, dictionary)
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I would guess that when butter was churned at home in the long-ago, it was 'patted' into some kind of shape, and that's where the phrase 'pat of butter' came from.
Many of these expressions can be attributed to the past, when things were very much different!
Here is the American Heritage Dictionary's take:
[SIZE=3]pat 1[/SIZE] (pt)
n. 1. A light gentle stroke or tap. 2. The sound made by a light stroke or tap or by light footsteps. 3. A small mass shaped by or as if by patting: a pat of butter.
I've never heard or seen anyone say or write "pad" of butter.
I have some old butter pats. They are little squarish ceramic dishes made to hold individual bits of butter and they were used back in the days when dinners were more formal. Each person had a butter pat placed near his plate instead of having a communal butter dish. I have also heard of those little paper squares with a piece of butter on them referred to as butter pats. I've never heard or seen anyone say "PAD" of butter either.
HAHA--that's good. The apostrophe is everywhere in that cartoon, just like going to the grocery store's. (The grocery store's what?) They make it possessive and then leave us hanging.
HAHA--that's good. The apostrophe is everywhere in that cartoon, just like going to the grocery store's. (The grocery store's what?) They make it possessive and then leave us hanging.
Every time that Shop-Rite (the largest grocery chain in NJ and a few other states) advertises a price reduction on Reynolds aluminum foil, it is advertised as, "Reynold's", foil.
I tried e-mailing the powers-that-be at their corporate headquarters in order to make them aware of this gaffe, but I did not receive a response.
More than likely, they are still scratching their heads in puzzlement.
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