Recent Examples on the WebAccording To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024 The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.—J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024 Comfort is woven into the very texture of their worlds: the plushness of the grass, the snap of the floors, the careful detail lavished on warm, nourishing foods like ramen and porridge and eggs on toast.—Moeko Fujii, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024 Everything, including the porridge left in cooking pots, crashed through the burning wicker floors into the thick, sticky reed beds below and stayed there.—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024 How to prepare porridge properly Fresh porridge and oatmeal should be warm and creamy.—Anna Bader, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2024 In China, Zong was known as a legendary businessman who grew his soft drinks empire from a tricycle cart hawking ice pops to school kids into a conglomerate selling everything from milk drinks to bottled water and canned porridge.—Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024 Turn off the hob and leave the porridge to infuse for about 5 minutes.—Anna Bader, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2024 The bones are grilled and used to make a stock with kombu, ginger and scallion for the porridge.—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
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The sound change is peculiar. Perhaps there was some anticipatory voicing of -tt- and the resultant voiced stop was taken as a rhotic tap. Compare the same change in porringer.
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