The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140265   Message #3223193
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
14-Sep-11 - 02:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: ...age pronunciation
Subject: RE: BS: ...age pronunciation
Café is always ka-FAY. Proper pronunciation of a word taken from the French in turn taken from Turkish kahve.

Always inventive, only North Americans could coin a word such as cafetorium. (Webster's Collegiate and International.)

Garage- 'garridge' always good for a laugh in North America.