Why do they call it a knob of butter when it doesnt look like my knob?!
Answers: it wasn't named after your knob
Haha !
hmmm we don't call it that. We say stick of butter or tab of butter.
Because if it was like your know it would be called a pinch.
Oh no - it doesn't?! Well it looks like a NORMAL knob
....uh oh....
Knob, pat, dab; doesnt look like any of those either.
See a doctor immediately, it should look identical.
I guess in the olden days when butter was just stored in a tub or bucket after churning, you sort of spooned out a knob. or it looked like a round blob of butter on the spoon...
ever think that you have a weird knob?
Around here it is a "pat" of butter. What in hairy heck is a "pat" supposed to be?
because it better to call it a konb in staed of stick
Our words don't necessarily carry meaning based on any kind of logic or common sense.
I'm sure that an academic or linguist could trace this back in time to old English or French and the word was something else that maybe sounded phonetically like "knob" but really meant "tablespoon full" or something like that.
Hundreds of years later, people no longer learn the old version of the language, but certain common usages persist. Hence, no one remembers why odd words appear in odd situations.
We have lots of measuring/counting/grouping words that seem nonsensical.
A Gaggle of Geese?
A Murder of Crows?
A Bale of turtles?
There are lots more examples, I am simply drawing a blank this early in the morning.
If you don't know that already then you are a disgrace to butter.
Thats funny! have a star!
Because your a pr@t
Jealous are you?