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-   -   Some expresso with that... (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/some-expresso-824996/)

caretaker Feb 14th 2014 8:57 pm
Re: Some expresso with that...
 
Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 11130735)
It's not spelt like that, it's Worcestershire.
I stand corrected (no I'm not going to stand up); guess I should have got it out of the fridge for that. Wor-ces-ter-shire.....that's better. Thanks to the CBC I know that Reading rhymes with beddding, (though why still escapes me). :confused:

Bleepedy Bloops Feb 17th 2014 3:57 am
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One word:

lieutenant.

/thread.

Greenhill Dec 16th 2014 2:39 am
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Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.

However, on opening a new bag of beans this morning, I spotted the contentious "expresso" word (see attached).

Shard Dec 16th 2014 9:36 am
Re: Some expresso with that...
 
Originally Posted by Greenhill (Post 11504216)
Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.

However, on opening a new bag of beans this morning, I spotted the contentious "expresso" word (see attached).
Err, yeah I had forgotten about this inane thread. Nevertheless, to prove that the inane mind never rests, I do actually have a coffee question which I as thinking about posting in a new thread, instead, I will post it here...

So, someone told me the other day, that when making instant coffee, you shouldn't use just boiled water as it is too hot and will scald the coffee (impeding the flavour). He recommended waiting about a minute before pouring the boiled water on the coffee. Any truth in that?

Novocastrian Dec 16th 2014 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11504706)

So, someone told me the other day, that when making instant coffee, you shouldn't use just boiled water as it is too hot and will scald the coffee (impeding the flavour). He recommended waiting about a minute before pouring the boiled water on the coffee. Any truth in that?

The truth is: when making coffee never use instant coffee.

Disgusting stuff.

Shard Dec 16th 2014 9:44 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11504710)
The truth is: when making coffee never use instant coffee.

Disgusting stuff.
It's not the same, agreed, but sometimes laziness gets the better of me. Having said that, some of the newer instant varieties are better than the really foul Nescafé of old.

foreigngirl Dec 16th 2014 9:57 am
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This isn't mispronounced, just a very bad grammatical error - pierogis. What do you need the 's' for? 'Pierogi' is already in the plural, why add another plural??? Just wrong. Wrong. Very wrong.
On that note, I need to go make some for Christmas...

bats Dec 16th 2014 11:46 am
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Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 11129810)
Wor-ches-ter-shire. If you don't want it pronounced a certain way, just don't spell it like that. :D.
Oh, cheeky-monkey, I am a moderator on a British forum and they are among the worst in the world. The whole wide wanking world.
May I just say:
Temiskaming, Gananoque, Esquimault, Etobicoke, Madoc, Sault St Marie, Saskatchewan, Alberda.

Novocastrian Dec 16th 2014 2:15 pm
Re: Some expresso with that...
 
Originally Posted by foreigngirl (Post 11504736)
This isn't mispronounced, just a very bad grammatical error - pierogis. What do you need the 's' for? 'Pierogi' is already in the plural, why add another plural??? Just wrong. Wrong. Very wrong.
On that note, I need to go make some for Christmas...
Thus putting to bed Oink's bewildering supposition that you are German.

Novocastrian Dec 16th 2014 2:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11504719)
It's not the same, agreed, but sometimes laziness gets the better of me. Having said that, some of the newer instant varieties are better than the really foul Nescafé of old.
I've been known to be lazy myself, but never in the matter of coffee.

Laziness, in the context of coffee, includes buying cups of the stuff from anywhere. Anywhere at all.

I always make my own.

caretaker Dec 16th 2014 5:56 pm
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11504955)
Thus putting to bed Oink's bewildering supposition that you are German.
Seems so (making them for Christmas is pretty strong evidence) but it's still a possibility; my German granny called them pedaheh (instead of pierogi or perogies or varenyky). If she spells kobasa kielbasa then you're probably right.
I'm so lazy I load the coffee maker when I'm done drinking it so next morning all I have to do is flip the switch.

Oakvillian Dec 17th 2014 2:12 am
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Originally Posted by bats (Post 11504851)
May I just say:
Temiskaming, Gananoque, Esquimault, Etobicoke, Madoc, Sault St Marie, Saskatchewan, Alberda.
And not forgetting my very favourite (and doubtless deliberate) Canadian Anglicization of a French word. When I first drove from Montreal to Toronto, as we approached Belleville, there was a sign for the Bay of Quinte. It looked like a French word. I mentally pronounced it as such. And was much relieved, later, to discover it's actually pronounced "kwinn-tea." :eek:

Souvy Dec 17th 2014 3:30 am
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Originally Posted by bats (Post 11504851)
May I just say:
Temiskaming, Gananoque, Esquimault, Etobicoke, Madoc, Sault St Marie, Saskatchewan, Alberda.
May I just say:

L’ Outaouais

That's the region where I live. The tourism guys here do not promote the place in Liverpool because the name sounds rather like an invitation.

Novocastrian Dec 17th 2014 8:48 am
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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 11505668)
May I just say:

L’ Outaouais

That's the region where I live. The tourism guys here do not promote the place in Liverpool because the name sounds rather like an invitation.
;)

disclaimer: some of my best friends are scouse.

Partially discharged Dec 17th 2014 9:03 am
Re: Some expresso with that...
 
Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 11505569)
And not forgetting my very favourite (and doubtless deliberate) Canadian Anglicization of a French word. When I first drove from Montreal to Toronto, as we approached Belleville, there was a sign for the Bay of Quinte. It looked like a French word. I mentally pronounced it as such. And was much relieved, later, to discover it's actually pronounced "kwinn-tea." :eek:
Two places that I find hard to pronounce the 'canadian' way are Keswick and Tottenham in Ontario.

For Keswick Canadians pronounce the 'w' and Spurs land is pronounced as Tot-en-ham


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