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Fine Points in Language Language is a tricky subject. By the Numbers Google has a nifty tool that lets you search everything in their archives, from historical texts to modern blog posts, and tally up how often certain words are used.
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I will use each of these words in at least one example sentence, so you can see them in context. Plus, I will show you a useful mnemonic device that you can use to help yourself remember whether barbecue or barbeque is correct. What does barbecue mean?
Barbecue can be a noun or a verb. As a noun , barbecue means a particular method of cooking, whereby one suspends meat over burning coals on a wooden framework. The word can also refer to a gathering around food cooked this way. There are also a few barbecue joints around with names containing barbacue , but these spellings occur so rarely that they don't merit much attention.
So, how did all these "variations" come to be? Quite simply, like many words, it was spoken long before it was put in a dictionary. Barbecue, as defined as a style of food from the Southern United States, is a folk tradition and not the subject of academic works until recently.
This lead to many people not knowing how the word was spelled, and therefore, creating lots of ways to misspell it. But even so, dictionaries dating back more than years spell it as "barbecue. While it may not be the most scientific method in the world, most of us turn to one source to figure out how to spell a word we are unsure of.
No, it's not a dictionary—it's our computers. Interestingly, the abbreviated spelling, BBQ, is the most popular way to spell barbecue, while "barbecue" comes in second. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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