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llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Receipt or recipe?

Hi,

This has puzzled me for some time now: why are receipt files called receipt? Shouldn't they be called recipe? I wonder whether the confusion receipt/recipe comes from French where the word "recette" can mean receipt or recipe.

What do you think?

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Receipt or recipe?

Hi,

I (with my bad English) see no difference

I translated both the words in the Google Translate, and I like one meaning for "receipt" something like "the thing that helps to reach the goal"

And "recipe" for me is word from medicine only to buy pills in the "drug store" (PS: oh, I forgot about food cooking! Yes, it is also "recipe").

Anyway I found both "receipt" and "recipe" in the SliTaz documentation at doc.slitaz.org.

Please, other opinions?

Genesis

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Registered: 2014-07-03

Posts: 109

Re: Receipt or recipe?

In Portuguese both words have also the same translation, but as far as I know the meanings in English are diferent:

- recipe: a set of instructions on how to make a dish;

- receipt: a document that you get from someone showing that you have given them instructions (Computing).

Is there a teacher in the house?

claudinei

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 102

Re: Receipt or recipe?

As far as I know both words have the same meaning while used in the SliTaz Documentation, which uses food related words as a naming convention. From my point of view a receipt file is a recipe

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Receipt or recipe?

From my point of view a receipt file is a recipe

Yes, that's why I think "receipt" was erroneous. Don't you?

All the more since there are many other cooking words in SliTaz: cook, cooking, wok, flavor, undigest, pizza...

claudinei

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 102

Re: Receipt or recipe?

"Receipt" and "recipe" are synonyms, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What causes some confusion is that "receipt" is considered an archaic word, but there's no error if one choose to use it. Some examples from the Oxford Dictionary:

"She spent hours in the kitchen, trying all sorts of receipts"

"The Ohio testers found that most of the receipts can be made easily with present-day ingredients, techniques, and equipment."

"Romans have always loved eating well (Apicio, who lived in the I century A.D. left a lot of cooking receipts) and today Roman dishes are considered Italian dishes."

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Receipt or recipe?

Thanks for the clarification, Claudinei.