Showing posts with label Dialect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dialect. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

"Cauffee"

Speaking as a transplanted Yankee living out in the northwest, one of the things that made me stick out like a sore thumb were the different pronunciations of everyone's favorite breakfast drink... Being asked by waiters all over Seattle what "cauffee" was got old after the first week.