1075: pudding Nov 18, 2017

Differences in people's dialects will not only manifest themselves as accents but there will also be some amount of separate lexicon. For instance, while in America and Canada, 'pudding' only denotes a sweet, custard-like dessert, in Britain (and other Commonwealth countries) 'pudding' is synonymous with 'dessert'. Neither could be considered to be wrong, so to speak, but you may wonder which of those is traditional. The answer is: neither. The term in Middle English denoted a sausage, as is still the case when the word is qualified, such as 'black pudding'. As a side-note, haggis is technically a pudding as well.