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Yohanan Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

To string popcorn?

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00The first three words in the following sentence sound a bit strange to me: "we strung popcorn lasting from Grandma's Christmas package of the year before". 02br
00Thank you for any help. This forum is a wonderful place to get answers on these idiomatics. 02br
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0 I guess Grandma gave popcorns as a present last Christmas, and they used them to make a kind of garland by stringing them unto a thread. For decoration. 0-

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  • 0 I guess Grandma gave popcorns as a present last Christmas, and they used them to make a kind of garland by stringing them unto a thread.
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0 I guess Grandma gave popcorns as a present last Christmas, and they used them to make a kind of garland by stringing them unto a thread. For decoration. 0-
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0 Hi, yohanan! 02br
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00That whole sentence sounds weird to me. It's not really grammatically correct. I think it should be more like, "We strung up popcorn left over from last year's Christmas package that Grandma sent us," or maybe something similar to that. 02br
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00Anyway, "strung" means "To thread on a string". So it sounds like they threaded
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0 Yes! That fits the context, though "to string up popcorn" seems rather eccentric. Being rather ignorant I wondered if this might have another 01del00hidden02del00 meaning. 02br
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0 You string popcorn (not "string up"). Popcorn, not popcorns. 0-
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0 Hi khoff, 02br
00I agree about string vs string up (a garland), sorry for the inattention. I used to think of popcorn as the burst maize when heated - it is the current meaning of the word here in Europe. Can the word also be use for the corn (or the Maize) itself ? 02br
00Thank you for the help. 02br
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0 There is a special variety of corn (maize) designed for popping, and it is different than the canned corn or corn-on-the-cob that we eat (in the U.S.) When you buy the unpopped kernels in the store, you might call it popcorn (especially "microwave popcorn"), or you might call it "popping corn" (that is, corn for popping) to distinguish it from already-popped, ready-to-eat popcorn. 02br
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Let me get this straight. You guys use real maize to decorate Chritmas trees or not only?
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