{"id":480,"date":"2009-01-15T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/baklava-vs-baklawa-vs-balaclava-vs-balaclava-vs-balaklava\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T18:05:23","slug":"baklava-vs-baklawa-vs-balaclava-vs-balaclava-vs-balaklava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/01\/baklava-vs-baklawa-vs-balaclava-vs-balaclava-vs-balaklava\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;baklava&#8221; vs. &#8220;baklawa&#8221; vs. &#8220;balaclava&#8221; vs. &#8220;Balaclava&#8221; vs. &#8220;Balaklava&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A personal confusion the other day about some of these words prompted this blog post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><br \/>\nThese nouns sound similar but are not all synonyms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><br \/>\nMy wife bought a &#8220;balaclava&#8221; &#8212; with a &#8220;c&#8221; in the middle &#8212; to stay warm for her half-marathon last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived in the southwest U.S. my entire life and am not fluent in the names for cold-weather clothing.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought that my wife said &#8220;baklava&#8221;, which is a word that she and I heard during our visit to Turkey two summers ago.<\/p>\n<p>I researched both words and learned the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A &#8220;baklava&#8221; &#8212; spelled B-A-K-L-A-V-A &#8212; is a sweet <a target=\"_baklava\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baklava\">pastry<\/a> that is popular in Turkey and is made from filo dough, nuts, and honey or syrup.<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;baklawa&#8221; &#8212; spelled B-A-K-L-A-W-A &#8212; is the same sweet pastry, simply spelled with a &#8220;w&#8221; instead of a &#8220;v&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;balaclava&#8221; &#8212; spelled B-A-L-A-C-L-A-V-A &#8212; is a knitted <a target=\"_balaclava\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balaclava_(clothing)\">cap<\/a> that fits closely around the head and neck and sometimes shoulders in order to keep the wearer warm.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Balaklava&#8221; &#8212; spelled CAPITAL-B-A-L-A-K-L-A-V-A &#8212; is a <a target=\"_Balaklava\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balaklava\">seaport<\/a> on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Balaclava&#8221; &#8212; spelled CAPITAL-B-A-L-A-C-L-A-V-A &#8212; is the same seaport, simply spelled with a &#8220;c&#8221; instead of a &#8220;k&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lowercase-&#8220;b&#8221; &#8220;balaclava&#8221; garment dates back to the 1880s and is named after the capital-&#8220;B&#8221; &#8220;Balaklava&#8221; seaport.<\/p>\n<p>If you have eaten both a &#8220;bear claw&#8221; and a &#8220;baklawa&#8221; or &#8220;baklava&#8221;, then you know that these two pastries do not even look alike, let alone have the same ingredients or taste alike.<\/p>\n<p>However, in case you are wondering, the name &#8220;bear claw&#8221; is not related to &#8220;baklawa&#8221; (or &#8220;baklava&#8221;), even though they sound similar.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the name &#8220;bear claw&#8221; refers to a yeast-raised, almond-paste-flavored pastry that is prepared such that its shape evokes the image of a bear&#8217;s claw.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_bear_claw\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bear_claw_(pastry)\">Wikipedia says<\/a> that a &#8220;bear claw&#8221; is chiefly popular in the western states of the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to possible linguistic confusion, the U.S.-based &#8220;bear claw&#8221; is different than the Dutch &#8220;berenklauw&#8221;, which means &#8220;bear&#8217;s claw&#8221; &#8212; with a possessive apostrophe-&#8220;s&#8221; &#8212; in English.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_berenklauw\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berenklauw\">Wikipedia says<\/a> that a &#8220;berenklauw&#8221; &#8212; spelled B-E-R-E-N-K-L-A-U-W &#8212; is a Dutch snack on a wooden skewer and made with meatballs, fried onion rings, and peanut sauce.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize, one conceivably could wear a balaclava in Balaclava while consuming a baklawa, a bear claw, and a berenklauw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><br \/>\nRemember that the capital-&#8220;B&#8221; word for the Ukrainian seaport can be spelled with a &#8220;k&#8221; or a &#8220;c&#8221;, that the seaport is cold, and that the small-&#8220;b&#8221; &#8220;balaclava&#8221; is named after the seaport and is for keeping warm. 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