Word of the Week

Alright, time for our next "word of the week".
This week's adorable British word: tipple

tipplenoun 

/ˈtɪp.l ̩/ [C] informal

     

Definition

an alcoholic drink

What's your tipple (= What alcoholic drink do you usually drink)?

(Definition of tipple noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

I saw it in a newspaper the other day, the headline read "What's your favourite tipple?" and I asked Will what it meant.  He says it's only really used in that context and basically refers to anyone's favorite drink.  So a tipple = your usual alcoholic beverage.

moving on to..

Cultural Awareness of The Week!

This week's topic is wedding cakes.  So apparently the traditional wedding cake of choice in England is, get ready for it: a fruit cake.  A fruit cake?? Really? Yes, really.  

In regards to wedding planning, Will keeps saying he doesn't mind, whatever I want is fine.  Then, all of the sudden, when I decide on something, he has an opinion. "We're not having fruit cake? We have to have fruit cake!"

There are basically only three choices of cake for a wedding cake:

1. Fruit cake (which apparently is the most traditional and popular)
2. Yellow sponge cake (usually with a buttercream filling)
3. Chocolate cake

So we're compromising.  We've decided on a two-tiered cake with fruit cake on the bottom for all the Brits and sponge cake on the top for all the Americans.  And forget butter-cream frosting, the cake shop lady seemed quite repulsed at the suggestion of covering it in in frosting.  No, they only have marzipan (or occasionally royal icing, which is not comparable to butter cream) here in England.  At least I get sponge cake...


One thing crossed off the never-ending list of wedding planning.