loaf bread - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
loaf bread n Bread made from wheat flour and yeast, in contrast to that made from oats (in Ulster) or corn (in the U.S.). [oed loaf bread n ‘bread made in the form of loaves’ now dialect; snd (at loaf n 1) ‘wheaten-flour bread’ (in contrast to oatbread/oatcakes); dare loaf bread n ‘yeast-leavened bread, especially made with wheat flour, that is shaped into a loaf’ chiefly South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1931 Bratton Turf Fire 120 A noggin of sowans would keep out the coul’, / but loaf-bread and tay would just starve ye, in sowl.
U.S.:
1775 (in 1921 Kilpatrick Journal William Calk 366) [W]e Start early and git to foart chissel whear We git some good loaf Bread & good Whiskey.
1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 67 In the South and the South Midland [wheat] bread is commonly known as light-bread, in the coastal area also as loaf-bread, as distinct from pone bread for corn bread.
1967 DARE Coll = bread made with wheat flour.
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