American dialects and their origins, how they're shifting, and some myths concerning them.
For example: It's spelled "coffee" all over the US, but do you say it "cahfee" or "cwaffee" or "cawfee"?
Veering off the subject slightly... why is it called "caffeine" and not "coffeine"?
Meh, no matter. Still opens my eyes in the morning, and I suppose that'll do.
1 comment:
I have been wondering the same. Why is it called Caffeine and not Coffeine? I mean, the latter would make more sense since it is called 'coffee' and not 'caffee'.
And to make things even more confusing, in danish (I'm from Denmark) 'coffee' is called 'kaffe' (with an 'A') but 'caffeine' is called 'koffein' (with an 'O')...
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