What's the difference between sherbert, sherbet, and sorbet? Are they just different dialectal forms of the same word?
-R
@Felthry (more seriously though I have no idea because I've heard all of them used interchangably for different things, except Sorbet which as far as I was aware is a frozen icecream-like dessert which is fruit juice and ice based)
@Felthry Ah see, Sherbet here is like... powdered sugary stuff? Like... wait no is that Sherbert... I dunno, either way it's used for a candy thing which is just sugary flavoured powder that you dip a lollipop into.
gosh the english language is a mess D:
@Nine also we've only ever seen sorbet written, no one here actually pronounces it like that--they call it sherbert even if sorbet or sherbet is written on the tub
I assume sorbet is pronounced frenchishly, with the silent t? It looks frenchish.
-F
@Felthry woah, really?? Yeah, I always figured Sorbet was pronounced "Sore Bay", because, yeah, french/silent t?
@Felthry at least that's how I've always pro nounced it, same as eeryone I've met meatspacewise
@Nine It's just not a word used here, at least not in the US south
-F
@Nine In our experience, sherbet and sherbert are two other words that specifically refer to the same frozen dessert.
-R