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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also muffins. Easy enough to figure out from context which we mean

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretend you want both, what sentence would you tell someone going to shop for you to express that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Muffins" would be English muffins. For the other kind, we would specify flavour if we're asking someone to buy it for us. So I might say "Can you get muffins and also chocolate muffins please?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel as though bringing you a bran muffin and a chocolate muffin would fulfill that and you would be out your "muffin" muffin. You guys should start calling them separate things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe in America, but if you brought me a bran muffin when I asked for a muffin, you'd be in the wrong here. That's just how it is shrugs

[–] Arrakis 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"go get me a breakfast muffin, bitch"