On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 5:52:48 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:37:33 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> And I see below that he was thinking of chunks of pumpkin in a can,
> >> rather than a can of puree. I can see where he'd think that, since
> >> it took quite a while for any of us to say that canned pumpkin is
> >> pureed.
> >
> >We're all speaking English, but it might as well be another language.
>
> But if you look at the title of this thread, "Canned pumpkin
> shortage". Not "Canned pumpkin puree shortage".

Ah, well, it's all about context. We Norte Americanos grew
up eating pumpkin pie and seeing canned pureed pumpkin in
the stores. It likewise never occurs to us to say we
were talking about wet water.

As for the grill/broiler thing. Why do you call it a grill?
There's no grillwork (metal bars or wires arranged to form a
grille).

Oddly enough, the etymology of broiler seems to be:
late 14c., "grill or gridiron used in broiling," agent noun from broil (v.1).

So I guess either broiler or grill really implies grillwork.

Cindy Hamilton