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In Southern England, especially around London in the 1950s, the French pronunciation was often facetiously altered to / k æ f / and spelt caff. [13] The English word coffee and French word café (coffeehouse) both derive from the Italian caffè [9] [14] —first attested as caveé in Venice in 1570 [15] —and in turn derived from Arabic qahwa ...
The symbols for the thirteen macronutrient elements in biology spell CHOPKINS CaFe Mg NaCl, or C. Hopkins Cafe [food tastes] m[ighty] g[ood] with salt (NaCl). Note however, that this popular and useful mnemonic [ 1 ] is typical in that it is neither comprehensive nor context-free.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The title comes from Reader's Digest's list of most iconic diners in all 50 states.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
The French, who occupied Vietnam for nearly a century, introduced coffee in the mid-1800s, seeking to cultivate a crop that could fulfill a lucrative demand for beans in Europe.
Name of multiple places New Berlin: New BUR-lin / ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / Name of multiple places New Orleans: new OR-linz / n j uː ˈ ɔːr l ɪ n z / [n 27] New Madrid, Missouri: New MAD-rid / ˈ m æ d r ɪ d / New Prague, Minnesota: New PRAYG / ˈ p r eɪ ɡ / New Tripoli, Pennsylvania: New trih-POH-lee / t r ɪ ˈ p oʊ l i / Noel, Missouri ...
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...