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It should be "iced cream". Calling it "ice cream" is dumb. amirite?
by Anonymous4 months ago
It originally was, much like iced tea, creamed cheese, etc. Natural languages take shortcuts, especially when there's a disparity in the relative effort of full pronunciation vs. dropping a sound or syllable, as with the -d in iced cream. I think the term is elision.
by Anonymous4 months ago
So then an iced coffee is just coffee ice cream!
by Anonymous4 months ago
Well, I feel like you're leaving out coffee with iced cream, coffee with creamed ice, coffee with cream on ice, iced coffee iced cream, iced coffee with creamed ice, iced coffee with cream on ice, or even iced coffee with cream on ice with a side of iced cream……
by CelebrationPopular184 months ago
Haha thats true. My point was that "iced XXX" means a XXX drink served over ice.
by Anonymous4 months ago
Okay, Mr. Burns.
by ConsciousTomato39714 months ago
first time linguistics student up in here. Missed the rest of the lecture, though.
by RubConsistent4 months ago
Smithers, I really feel like such a free spirit, and I'm really enjoying this so-called "Iced Cream".
by Designer_Phrase25474 months ago
Iced cream just sounds all kinds of wrong.
by keshaunkohler4 months ago
Probably started that way, but the average person's inability to properly enunciate probably changed the common vernacular over time.
by Anonymous4 months ago
But then the song wouldn't work. Iced cream yoused cream? Nah
by Personal-Ring4 months ago
I agree. I'm still calling it "ice cream though"
by Anonymous4 months ago
while i agree with you, i think ice cream became the nomenclature just because it rolls off the tongue easier. Try saying "iced cream" five times fast.
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