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O, hydrates

Nonchalant Jen requests:

Please banish “low carb.” I am sick of seeing it on every food item and restaurant menu. I am not on the Atkins diet, the Zone diet or any other miserable diet for that matter, so I don’t want to be looked at like some social pariah for eating a carrot or a piece of bread!

And are people so lazy that they cannot say “ohydrate”?

I’ll never give up my “carbs” or my “ohydrates.”

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3 Responses to “O, hydrates”

  1. KP Says:
    March 31st, 2004 at 10:19 pm

    Dave Barry’s recent column on this subject was nothing short of brilliant. http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/v-print/story/8651824p-9579787c.html

  2. Nonchalant Jen Says:
    April 1st, 2004 at 6:20 am

    Thanks for the link! Great article!

  3. Terry Murray Says:
    April 6th, 2004 at 12:07 pm

    I love to hate universal truncation as well. Example: The Ottawa Senators hockey team is the Sens. I’m waiting for people to get impatient with single syllables and reducing words further to just single phonemes. I blame TV.

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