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The Great Canadian Baking Show

I'll grant you the capitalisation, but "entremet" is just wrong: Gage, Oxford, AH, Robert, Larousse, all have "entremets". Awien (talk) 01:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Awien: Oh, I know it's probably spelled wrong but that is the spelling used. But that's an issue on the show's side and, at least in my opinion, Wikipedia should be reflecting the show's information rather than try to correct it. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 13:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Now they've done the same thing with mille crêpe(s). But as for entremets, I think five major dictionaries should prevail over the CBC's typist or intern. We shouldn't be perpetuating actual errors. Awien (talk) 13:44, 1 November 2018 (UTC) Six, with New Larousse Gastronomique. Awien (talk) 13:58, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

@Awien: This same spelling of "entremet" vs "entremets" appeared in The Great British Bake Off (series 5) and Top Chef: Just Desserts (season 2). A search shows that multiple (albeit non-dictionary) English-language sources use that spelling as well, since it's a back-formation from entremets. However, to be quite honest the use of an apparently unofficial back-formation isn't exactly a hill I'm willing to die on so I won't object to adding the S back. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 14:04, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

@RA0808: Yup, it's all over the internet - along with the correct form too, be it said. But off I go to put my finger in the dike anyway.

Btw, do you know that the French get a snarky good laugh at the combination of pretentiousness and misuse in the way Anglophone countries use French on menus and in cook[ery] books? Kind of embarrassing.

Cheers! Awien (talk) 15:28, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

@Awien: The French? Snarky? Say it isn't so! (I kid, every time I've been to France the people I've met have been lovely :P) RA0808 ^talk_contribs 15:50, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

They've mellowed a lot since I first knew them nearly sixty years ago, but they're absolutely not above getting in a dig on occasion. Still love them dearly, though! Awien (talk) 17:26, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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