Talk:shroom

shroom
Well known for "magic mushroom" (the recreational drug), but I'm not so sure about the claimed informal sense for a normal edible mushroom. Can anyone back it up? 86.131.86.108 21:08, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Comes up in a couple of cookbooks. DAVilla 11:24, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Cited. It's pretty rare — it's mostly spelled 'shrooms:, and mostly used in titles, names of dishes, etc. (punny contexts) — but I think I found three cites that work. Please take a look. (BTW, until I found the third one, I was sorely tempted to use a cite for "hallucinogenic shrooms", under the argument that clearly the writer wouldn't specify "hallucinogenic" if that was already implied by the "shrooms", but fortunately I wasn't reduced to that!) —Ruakh TALK 17:05, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Why do you not put the tag for protologism? The citations have not got even 10 years, so I highly doubt one could provide citations from the old literature of the 19th or 20th century. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 17:16, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Because it's not a protologism — and anyway, it seems very strange to me, this notion of protologistic apostrophe-dropping. :-P  —Ruakh TALK 19:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Cited, but I'm going to gloss it as rare. Thanks, Ruakh. Equinox ◑ 22:57, 13 June 2009 (UTC)