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[venta]

I'm confused about the word pitt. I think it's spelled with two t's.

The stone in an olive is called a pitt. A thing-for-getting-the-stones-out-of-olives is called an olive pitter.

Therefore a pitted olive is one which has had its stone removed.

I bought some olives which I was told weren't pitted. They have no stones.

Therefore a pitted olive is one which contains a pit - ie hasn't had its stone removed.

This could all be explained by me having just been misinformed about my olives. But I have heard people using the word pitted in both contexts.

Worse, the olives are upstairs in the fridge and no one will go and get them for me. It's a hard life.

Comments

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Erm, a pitted olive is one which doesn't contain the stone. As far as I'm aware, anyone else is just wrong :-)

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Worse, the olives are upstairs in the fridge and no one will go and get them for me. It's a hard life.

It's the pits!

Ba-boom- (and if you will) -chah!

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

It's a bugger. I've noticed a tendency in the last few years for dates to be sold as "stone-in" or "stone-out" dates rather than simply "stoned dates". This has robbed me of the opportunity to go "Oh wow, stoned dates man" every time I walk past them in the supermarket, which is probably a Good Thing.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Update: Having now got off my arse, and fetched the olives, I can clarify.

I bought some olives which I was told weren't pitted. Most of them have no stones.

Ah well. I don't think my colleague needed that tooth anyway.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm. Olives.
:o)
Does that mean if you eat the olive then spit the pitt into the bin, that with pitted olives, you have to spit the hole somewhere?

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Pitted is just an adjective describing the whatever
Like the moon is cratered (full of craters).
That person's face is pock-marked (full of craters).
Those olives are pitted (they gots da pits).

[pm215]

I'm confused about the word pitt. I think it's spelled with two t's.

I'm confused as well now, because I thought it only had one 't'.