Why are chitterlings called chitlins when the spelling says otherwise?

[JVS]

Was it originally chitterlings and then got shortened, or was it originally chitlins, but someone decided to make the word bigger?

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. 'Cause the poor Southerners who eat chitlins can't afford

more letters. :P Chitlins are stinkier and not as tasty as haggis. :puke: 'Nuff said.

:rofl:

[JVS]

2. Is that also the answer to why the restaurant was called Po Folks, not...

Poor People.

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. You mean Po Fucks?

:P Probably so.

[JVS]

4. Their hush-puppies were better than LJS ones

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. Most hushpuppies are better than LJS!

:) But yes, PF's are better. There's still a Po Folks one city over from where I live.

[wildhorses]

5. cos southerners like 3 syllable words to be 2 syllables and

we like to draw out one syllable words FOREVAHHHH

It is so hot that our tongue stays so parched that it can not work in the manner of the typical northern tongue which is usually so cold that it clips the words as they march across the tongue
:patriot:

[supernova]

6. From dictionary.com:

chit·ter·lings also chit·lins or chit·lings ( P ) Pronunciation Key (chtlnz)
pl.n.

The small intestines of pigs, especially when cooked and eaten as food.


From Middle English chiterling, probably diminutive of Old English *cieter, intestines.

[trackfan]

8. Leicester

Worcestershire