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Am I the last English speaker on this planet who reads “sundried tomatoes” as “mixed tomatoes?”
People! Please! Hyphen! Sun-dash-dried . . . dried-by-the-sun! Sundried reads as “to have made sundry” and “sundry” means “miscellaneous, mixed stuff.”
Sundried! PAH! Sun-dried!
Thanks.
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Response
Kevin Kabumoto
I thought “sundry” was a noun, as in:
There was a sundry of tomatoes available.
Only if sundry is a verb could you have something “sundried.”
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