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Ann225 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Canning

Hi,

When you make pickles, pickled cauliflower or paprika, can you say that you:

‘do a lot of canning’?

It sounds a bit strange, but I was wondering if ‘canning’ could be used in a similar way.

Thank you.

  

Top answer

No – you can say that you do a lot of pickling.

— Rover_KE

  • No – you can say that you do a lot of pickling.
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No – you can say that you do a lot of pickling.

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Back in the day, I'm pretty sure my mother would have called it canning. (AmE)

CJ

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