anna_wing ([personal profile] anna_wing) wrote2025-05-10 07:33 pm
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'Jarring' is jarring

I seem to recall that in my distant youth the process of preserving fruit or vegetables in sealed glass containers was called 'bottling'. There was also Richard III, the bottled spider (I remember wondering as a child why anyone would want to put a spider in a bottle, it seemed a rather cruel thing to do). When did it become 'jarring', a word with a useful existing meaning of its own that didn't need another one?
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[personal profile] flemmings 2025-05-10 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)

Over here I believe it was called canning, even though no cans were involved.

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[personal profile] flemmings 2025-05-13 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)

Probably preserving.