2007-12-02 23:35:07 · 16 answers · asked by max 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
it wasn't named after your knob
2007-12-03 00:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by ambergerbuns 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our words don't necessarily carry meaning based on any kind of logic or common sense.
I'm sure that an academic or linguist could trace this back in time to old English or French and the word was something else that maybe sounded phonetically like "knob" but really meant "tablespoon full" or something like that.
Hundreds of years later, people no longer learn the old version of the language, but certain common usages persist. Hence, no one remembers why odd words appear in odd situations.
We have lots of measuring/counting/grouping words that seem nonsensical.
A Gaggle of Geese?
A Murder of Crows?
A Bale of turtles?
There are lots more examples, I am simply drawing a blank this early in the morning.
2007-12-02 23:48:24 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess in the olden days when butter was just stored in a tub or bucket after churning, you sort of spooned out a knob. or it looked like a round blob of butter on the spoon...
2007-12-02 23:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mintee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Knob, pat, dab; doesnt look like any of those either.
2007-12-02 23:37:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever think that you have a weird knob?
2007-12-02 23:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by ♠ Merlin ♠ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Around here it is a "pat" of butter. What in hairy heck is a "pat" supposed to be?
2007-12-02 23:40:08 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Delanne 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh no - it doesn't?! Well it looks like a NORMAL knob
....uh oh....
2007-12-02 23:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by Jokin' Jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't know that already then you are a disgrace to butter.
2007-12-03 00:01:41 · answer #8 · answered by Meganator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm we don't call it that. We say stick of butter or tab of butter.
2007-12-02 23:37:22 · answer #9 · answered by queenmaeve172000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See a doctor immediately, it should look identical.
2007-12-02 23:37:46 · answer #10 · answered by Muzikman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋