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This stylish Middle Eastern restaurant and all-day cafe serves everything from shakshuka and spicy chai porridge in the morning to meze platters and craft cocktails come evening.—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025 Nshima, a porridge made from ground cornmeal.—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025 Stir it into your morning oatmeal to make your porridge creamier, more flavorful, and more satisfying.—Lauren O'Connor, Health, 19 Aug. 2025 After all this effort, people got a small sample of porridge.—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for porridge
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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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