Sat Apr 07, 2007 14:26 pm Why can't we use the word "sour" in this context? |
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. It is not an appropriate taste for coffee. Some sour things: cream, lemons and limes, old milk, grapes, dough, and sweet-and-sour sauce.
Sour: 'causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids <sour pickles> -- compare BITTER, SALT, SWEET'. . _________________ Canadian-American native speaker who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber |
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