What does "speccies" mean?
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Is it 'espresso' or 'expresso?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Swedish town of "Yertebory",
I've been to Gothenburg, I think it was near there.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Brassneck-
Your Italian mate shouldn't be pronouncing Xs at all they dont exist in the italian alphabet. Having heard my father try to say the word 'axe' many times.....comical.....He just cant do it.
The pronunciation is eSpresso with an ESS sound...nuff said
Cant believe this thread has gone on so long....
Ho detto abbastanza!
Posted 1 year ago # -
ASK not axe. "I'll just axe that bloke."
Er, that's all because of Chaucer, innit.
(Or, for the hard of thinking "ask" and "aks" were once, in essence, interchangeable. but don't let the subtleties of etymology get in the way of petty racism.)
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+1. Arguing about the true pronunciation of English words is clearly ridiculous
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I'll have an espresso, and make it snappy!
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Subito!
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Yup - tender hooks - absloutely blood boiler
as is
'would of' instead of 'would have' even when writing it down
Marin_maketh_the_man - I'm looking at you fool
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He's Milanese, don't know if it makes a difference. I'd always thought it was es ..
May be related to him single handedly keeping Philip Morris running, every other hour is a break, every break is a ciggy andes.. ex..coffee Posted 1 year ago # -
...and then there's the folk who pronounce Abu Dhabi as though the last bit is a place in the Midlands...
...what do they teach them nowadays...
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Any o f you have one of these: http://mypressi.com/
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19 hours and no reply, guess the answer is 'No'.
Posted 1 year ago #
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