[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 85, Issue 6

[Brad Dunse']

Katie,

Sometimes I think we tend to cut off the end of the ham due to 
unknown habitual traditions. OK. Yeah you are wondering now he's 
really slipped the cheese off the cracker lol. If you hadnt heard the 
story its paraphrased as such:

A couple women, we'll call them Amy and Jen,  were conversating over 
preparation of a holiday ham dinner. Amy grabbed the ham , cut  off 
about three inches of the ham then put it in the roaster without 
missing a bit of her conversation. Jen noticed this  and asked  "Why 
did you just cut off the  end of the ham like that?" Amy 
said  because her mom always cut off the end of the ham, always, it 
was like a family tradition preparational thing, made it taste better 
or something she thought. Amy wasn't sure but has done this her whole 
life because her mom did it. The folowing week she asked her mom 
about the ham and her mom said "Oh that, I never had a roaster big 
enough to fit an entire ham  so I always cut  some off the end."

sometimes I think we fall into traditions without knowing why such as 
the state abbreviations. Overall though, its probably better to have 
a static method rather than 10 different ways for the same thing.

Brad




On 5/6/2011  02:39 PM Watson, Katherine M said...
>Hello Brad,
>      I'm a journalism major and all I can really say is that these 
> state abbreviations were created by The Associated Press, and 
> that's why we use them. As for the month abbreviations, we do not 
> abbreviate the months March, April, May, June, July or August 
> because these names are shorter. The goal in newspaper writing is 
> to be brief and concise. Hope this helps.
>--Katie Watson
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>I like this but have a couple questions if anyone knows the
>answer.  Why do you suppose they've not adopted the post office state
>abbreviations? When I see stuff like Neb., Mich., and so forth it
>seems extremely dated to me.  The same goes for  the use of a. m. p.
>m. as oppose to AM PM. The other thing is why aren't June, July,
>March and so forth abbreviated as the others when others are allowed
>to be abbreviated?
>
>The rest makes perfect sense to me oddly enough. Something to be said
>for osmosis :).
>
>Brad
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