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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Recipes/receipts
Hello!
Please could you tell me what's the difference between recipes and receipts? And by the way, both words have the same pronunciation?
And in the sentence: "I want it badly enough". Does it mean that you want something a lot ?
Thanks,
Carola
Please could you tell me what's the difference between recipes and receipts? And by the way, both words have the same pronunciation?
And in the sentence: "I want it badly enough". Does it mean that you want something a lot ?
Thanks,
Carola
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Hello Carola, Have you thought about registering? Do you have a dictionary? Because the two words have nothing in common!
- Hello Carola, Have you thought about registering?
- Do you have a dictionary?
- Because the two words have nothing in common!
- A recipe (American pronunciation: ress-uh-pee) tells you how to make something.
- I have a great brownie recipe.
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Hello Carola,
Have you thought about registering?
Do you have a dictionary? Because the two words have nothing in common!
A recipe (American pronunciation: ress-uh-pee) tells you how to make something. I have a great brownie recipe.
A receipt (ruh-seet) is what you get to show you have purchased something, or that something has changed hands. When you buy someth
Have you thought about registering?
Do you have a dictionary? Because the two words have nothing in common!
A recipe (American pronunciation: ress-uh-pee) tells you how to make something. I have a great brownie recipe.
A receipt (ruh-seet) is what you get to show you have purchased something, or that something has changed hands. When you buy someth
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recipe - pronounced RESS - ih- pee - Step-by-step instructions for cooking and baking, including a list of the ingredients for making the desired dish.
receipt - pronounced ree- SEET or rih- SEET - a piece of paper with monetary amounts written on it. It is proof that you have purchased something and a record of how much it cost.
You can have whatever you want
receipt - pronounced ree- SEET or rih- SEET - a piece of paper with monetary amounts written on it. It is proof that you have purchased something and a record of how much it cost.
You can have whatever you want
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Receipts also was used for cookery recipes - it's found up to the early 19th century. However, it is long obsolete in this form.
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Hello, Grammar Geek, CalifJim, and Feebs 11!
Thank you all for your explanations. They were certainly very useful for me.
Carola
Thank you all for your explanations. They were certainly very useful for me.
Carola
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recipe: cooking
receipts: papers to confirm receiving something
receipts: papers to confirm receiving something
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Just to make things more interesting:
"In the eighteenth century, people didn't use recipes to cook from ; they used receipts. A contemporary dictionary defines a recipe as 'a medical prescription' and a receipt as a 'prescription of ingredients for any composition' (Johnson, 596, 597). Receipts did not give precise measurements and step-by-step instructions ; instead, they were
"In the eighteenth century, people didn't use recipes to cook from ; they used receipts. A contemporary dictionary defines a recipe as 'a medical prescription' and a receipt as a 'prescription of ingredients for any composition' (Johnson, 596, 597). Receipts did not give precise measurements and step-by-step instructions ; instead, they were
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I'm glad to see that somebody knows what they are talking about. Even today in some parts of the UK you can find the word receipt used for recipe.
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