What is this nonsense about calling a recipie a receipt?

Question

Is there some basis for this, or is it just some backwoods, sibling-molesting moron with fewer vocabulary skills than George Bush?

Mine was a typo, not the wrong word.

Capt, I never heard that before will have to ask my Spanish teacher. Thanks.

Answer 1

Many years ago, when a person was traveling and found a particular dish they liked at a restaurant, they would ask for the recipe, The cooks of the times took this as a compliment rather than any attempt at stealing thier livelihood and it was cheerfully given.. The recipes however, were usually simply written on the backs of the nearest items that the patron had - thier receipt from the cash register!

As time went on and these 'receipts' were shared, especially in the south, the term "receipt" could also mean "recipe" and visa versa.

Answer 2

Gee - do you think that maybe people using "receipt" also just made a typo??

Even worse, you obviously didn't use the spell check tool - it would have shown you had made an obvious error, whereas "receipt" would not have shown up as wrong at all.

Either way, you just stuck your foot in your mouth. What was the phrase you used to describe people like this? Oh yeah!

". . .some backwoods, sibling-molesting moron with fewer vocabulary skills than George Bush? "

I suggest you quit while you are ahead, unless you have room in that vast cavern of yours for both feet!

Answer 3

Your question / statement: "Is there some basis for this, or is it just some backwoods, sibling-molesting moron with fewer vocabulary skills than George Bush?"

My answer: When I was a kid we had a saying, "It takes one to know one"! It seems to fit here in your case.

And I have an idea that mud-slingers like you are SECRETLY jealous of President Bush's education & intelligience! People may talk country & have country ways, but that doesn't mean they are any more ignorant or scuds of the Earth than anyone else! Where you live is not what defines what you are as a person! It's what is in your heart.....& yours seems to be in a pretty dark place right now!

SHAME ON YOU!

Answer 4

I did not know that being a bad speller was just as bad as being a backwoods, sibling-molesting moron with fewer vocabulary skills than George Bush. gee thanks, I guess you learns something new everyday.

perhaps we should find them and lock them up so that they can get a r@aped for being such horrible people.

or maybee it would be easier for you to just stop being an @ss hole.

did you konw taht the hmuan mnid is so porewlufl, that it can udneratsnd the tnipyg of a wrod as lnog as the fsrit and lsat ltteer are crroect? I am sorry that you are brain damaged and do not have this power.

Answer 5

"In the old days, recipes were called "receipts". We have printed, for historical reference, a number of old receipts. One of these is a receipt for Dandelion Blow, a delicate wine, that is over 130 years old."
http://www.wild-roses.com/recipes.htm

Oxford English Dictionary: "Receipt: (archaic) recipe".

Some people still like to use the older word. Surprising that someone who intimates an infallible knowledge of the English language did not know this.

Answer 6

It has to do with what language you are speaking. Recipe in American is receipt in spanish and a prescription is Spanish is also called a Receipt.

Answer 7

Speaking of vocabulary skills, it's spelled recipe.

Answer 8

I would asume the person just doesn't know how to spell recipe (something in common with you) lol

Answer 9

Um. You spelled it wrong too. It's recipe. www.dictionary.com will confirm that. See how easy it is to have a typo...

Answer 10

If you mis spell recipe (as you did), spell check may think you mean reciept.