Since the agent is Botrytis cinerea, botrytized seems to make more sense as the past participle of the verb form, but I sometimes hear and even read botrysized. Is that just a mistake (my opinion), or are both forms acceptable?
Botrytized, Morgan Twain-Peterson is an MW and he says Botrytized. He’s the most intelligent wine mind I know so I’ll believe him.
not sure it is correct to turn a noun into a verb though I hope my comment doesn’t disrespect anyone.
Either way, you’re supposed to pronounce it “boat-er-ized”
Do you pronounce the noun boat-er-eye-tis?
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No, it’s actually pronounced “throat-warbler mangrove.”
It’s botrytized. I’ve never heard or read the other word.
not sure it is correct to turn a noun into a verb though I hope my comment doesn’t disrespect anyone.
Alan - it’s called anthimeria. That’s turning a word into another part of speech. We do it with verbs all the time - “conduct an investigation” instead of “investigate”, etc. But we’re doing the reverse at an accelerating pace these days. I remember the first time I heard someone, an educated person, say she “Googled” something. We “table” discussions, “impact” situations, “access” websites, “text” our friends, “author” documents, “bottle” wine, and appallingly “gift” our acquaintances and most horrifically, “onboard” new staff.
(I don’t particularly care whether my comment disrespects anyone.)
Botrytised
well played
I always thought “botrytized” was pronounced “Raymond Luxury Yacht”?
Well, according to the SpellChecker here on WB for botrytized and botrysized , neither one is correct. No what??
Tom
Google botrysize to see some examples; even Louis Dressner’s harvest report has used botrysized (incorrectly IMO). In their 2005 report on Touraine they managed to spell it two different ways, within paragraphs of one another: “The Chenin grapes were slow to botrysize…” We did two first passes to pick the highly botrycized grapes, with high sugar content."
You are a very silly man.
So long as you don’t interface, we’re okay.
I think I like the sound of botrytisized as an alternative to the two options. It just sounds right regardless that it isn’t a word.
That’s it.
Microbiological agression!
So if I understand correctly, it’s fine to anthimeria words, as long as you don’t say something like “botrytissified” – that would be silly.
thank you.