10 Brand Names To Trouble Your Vocabulary

Espresso

Going to a coffee place seems like real-life version of the fictional Central Perk from the popular sit com “Friends”. But there’s probably something they had that you didn’t add to your fancy, the right pronunciation. The excruciating pain that the waiters have to go through (if they are aware about it) is to serve a bunch of dim-witted customers who can’t get the word right. What is thought to be called expressos is accurately pronounced as ess-press-oh, given the effort to make it sound meaningful.

 Cognac

Alas! Even a gentlemen’s drink is not spared of such atrocities. Men, women and other social or regular drinkers, the word has been derived from France, hence whatever the pronunciation you think it is in English, it’s not! This French brandy is loudly uttered as ‘con-yack’ and not blah-blah. This brings to mind, the common phrase “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”, so when you drink French speak French.

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