Ginny [they/she]

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Americans call things the wrong name all the time. Some of them have even been known to refer to pizzas as pizza pies, so clearly they are not to be trusted with respect to pie identification.

I’d be pretty upset if a custard tart tasted tart, too, but that’s what it’s called.

No, that’s a tart. Sorry.

If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

The difference is that fragrant and arrogant relate to words that end with -ance, i.e. fragrance and arrogance. For that matter, so do ignorance and vacancey (ish). Applicant and claimant are a separate category of -ant suffix.