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On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:08:10 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-09-23 5:48 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 4:18:01 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:

>
>>>> You want to eat HEALTHFULLY!
>>>> Eating "healthy" means eating huge portions.
>>>
>>> Only in America.

>>
>> Perhaps he's alluding to the expression "a healthy appetite".
>> However, what that means is not eating like a glutton, but
>> having the appetite of a healthy person, as opposed to the
>> weak appetite of a sick person.
>>
>> The dictionary informs me that--informally--"healthy" can
>> denote "considerable in size or amount", such as "a healthy
>> glug of vodka in a pitcher of orange juice". It's odd
>> that Sheldon would suddenly use the informal definition,
>> when throughout this thread he's been a stickler for what
>> he believes to be correct usage.

>
>It is even odder that he is such a stickler about an antiquated usage.
>As explained in the article I cited, he is about 100 years out of date.
>Meanwhile, the "yowse" he so often uses has never been acceptable.


I think it's spelt 'yoose', or something like that.
Then there's his frequent use of 'fercoktah' (sp).