User:Dystopos/Ways to spell barbecue
This is a list of ways to spell barbecue.
- Barbecue
- Bar-Be-Cue
- Bar Be-Cue
- Bar-Be Cue
- Bar Be Cue
- Bar Be-Que
- Bar-Be Que
- Bar-Be-Que
- Bar Be Que
- Bar-B-Que
- Bar B-Que
- Bar-B Que
- Bar B Que
- Bar-Be-Q
- Bar-Be Q
- Bar Be-Q
- Bar Be Q
- Bar-B-Q
- Bar B-Q
- Bar-B Q
- Bar B Q
- Bar-BQ
- Bar BQ
- BB-Cue
- BB Cue
- BB-Que
- BB Que
- BBQ
- B B Q
- B-B Q
- B B-Q
- B-BQ
- BB-Q
- Cue
- Que
- Q
Math
If you assume there are also 36 ways to spell "Jim 'N Nick's" then there would be 1,296 possible permutations of that business name.
Etymology
The word entered English from Spanish "barbacoa," a borrowing of the Taino or Arawak (West Indian) word now usually rendered "barbakoa", which referred to a wooden frame raised above the ground. The natives of Haiti used such frames both as sleeping platforms and as grilles for smoking foods.
Though it was in use by English speakers before 1700 (and was used in a general sense for an outdoor gathering at which meat or fish cooked over a fire is consumed by 1733, Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language was the first English reference to include the term, which he spelled as "barbecue".
Among the many 18th century variations in spelling were "barbacue," "barbicu," "borbecue," and "barbicue." The latter spelling was one used by George Washington in the 1760s.
References
- Moss, Robert (n.d.) "How Do You Spell Barbecue?" Southern Living
- Moss, Robert F. (2010) Barbecue: The History of an American Institution. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 081731718X