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Show "Them Molasses." The note from "The Doctor's Wife," giving the term "sap molasses" to maple ma-ple sirup, reminds me of a somewhat similar designation used in the South many years ago. A naturalist friend of ours told us that while studying in Kentucky his host remarked to him at breakfast, "Won't you have some of these molasses? These are tree molasses." mo-lasses." This use of the plural is also to be found among the natives of New England. I haven't heard it applied to molasses, but my father remembers as a boy hearing an old New England woman speak of making "a few broth." David Balfour's dreadful uncle in "Kidnaped" uses the plural form in speaking of "parritch." "They're fine, halesome food, they're grand food, parritch," he says to David. In this case, as in that of broth, the excuse for the final letter "s" as in molasses Is lacking and causes me some perplexity. per-plexity. "Sap sugar" is sometimes heard in New England. Boston Herald. |