Been talking to contractors of late and they look at me funny when I say "clabberd." Are they really expecting "clap-board"? Also I keep getting in trouble with calling an introductory overview a "primmer." When I say "primer" I mean a preparatory layer or something that helps set off an explosion.
Maybe they think you want curdled milk on the walls? 😉😄
The only people I know who know about clabbered milk also pronounce clapboard correctly.
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Wait, milk?!?
Well, cream. When you're making butter, for example, and it starts to separate into whey and butterfat, it is starting to clabber.
Some are primmer than a primrose.
Do they even use clapboard anymore? I hear shakes, siding, & Hardy Board. While I’m reliably informed an introductory text is a /Prim-er/ it doesn’t make sense! I champion /Prime-er/ in all 3 uses since a “primmer” primer is also a preparatory layer [of education] to prime one for more learning.
We were trying to talk about different appearances for Hardie board, because you can get it to look like shakes or like, well, clapboard. I think of "clapboard" as what you call the siding that looks like clapboard. Like we have aluminum siding but it's still clapboard style.
I gave up on renovating a house after I became too disabled to finish it myself AND had multiple contractors repeatedly not understand what I was asking for, though I thought they were common tasks, so I can only offer commiseration at meeting unexpected befuddlement in that quarter.
FWIW I think we use the terms similarly. the rehab house had nice clapboard style steel siding and my current one has more of a shakes aesthetic but from wide durable, dare I say hardy, boards that are hopefully not made of asbestos.