The Heartbreak of English Orthography

[flemmings]

Sign seen in Koreaville restaurant: Cold nuddle. My former English-teacher's heart winces in sympathy, my perennial Joycean-English lover's fancy is enchanted. I'd suggest we adopt that spelling except I instinctively feel that nuddles are found in eastern European cooking only.

Finished Lords and Ladies, starting Carpe Jugulum. Witches fun.

Comments

[doire]

Curious that "cold nuddles" wouldn't be so charming.

And since I had it open from earlier research nitpicking the OED gives "to rub with the nose". 1898 Speaker 5 Feb. 181 The mother nuddles him [sc. a lamb] with her nose.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Well, I assume sheep noses are as cold as dog noses, so there's your cold nuddles.

Quite unappetizing, as you say. (Is the OED sure that's not a fast typo rather than a variant of 'nuzzles'?)

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I read a book once where the word "noodles" was written one time as "noddles." And it was a cookbook.