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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!

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March 30th, 2006

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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