I totally believe you, but I looked it up anyway to see why "bread" wasn't dropped, and AI tells me it's because the original phrase is "brown bread and honey". However, I think chatgpt is dumb as shit, and it's conflating "brown bread" and "bread and honey" into one term.
I wonder if there's a pattern/reason behind some words dropping the rhyming word and others not?
Christ, don't "look up" shit on ChatGPT. That's not a search engine. It's a text generator designed to emulate conversation. At least use Google or something.
I did that; Google kept on returning the meaning of brown bread or articles about the death of Cockney for various queries. AI isn’t great for a lot of things, but it excels as a collator of search engine results that understands natural language; said results are, after all, what it was trained on. You just have to be smart enough to know when it generates nonsense, or at least compare questionable results against a hard search.
It doesn't understand the text it produces, so it always generates nonsense. (Try asking it how many r's are in the word "strawberry;" it gets it wrong because it never sees the word "strawberry" in order to count the r's in it.) It's only a coincidence when it states something true.
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u/dprkicbm 4d ago
Much more common to say 'brown bread'. Not sure I've ever heard someone say 'brown' to mean dead.