Words You Know... But Don't Know

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Had a bottle of Freixenet Cava last night. Very nice too. Often have one of a Summer evening. Of an Autumn, Winter, Spring evening too, come to think of it.

Suddenly realised that if one was not available to hand in the offie, I wouldn't have the foggiest idea what to ask for. A bottle of Cava probably and I'd take what I got. But how do you promounce Freixenet?

Got me further thinking about other words you think you know but you don't. Used to do the Newhaven trip to Dieppe couple of times a year and always drank a beer I thought was called Jupiter for years, before actually looking at the label one day and discovering it was actually called Jupiler. And that sports firm that used to sponsor Leeds? It looked like a 'b' or a 'd' followed by the word 'asics'. No idea at all what the word was supposed to be, let alone how it was pronounced. And closer to NSC home, 'mejonaNO12 aka riskit' - how does he introduce himself at NSC get-togethers?

 

[aftershavedave]

to save your embarassment next time your in china whites tom...
phonetically it's approximately: frish-en-eh

 

[aftershavedave]

to save your embarassment next time your in china whites tom...
phonetically it's approximately: frish-en-eh

i think, maybe it's frish-en-et

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Your safe with cava, as that's the style of wine. Essentially it's Spains version of Champagne, but not so overpriced.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Your safe with cava, as that's the style of wine. Essentially it's Spains version of Champagne, but not so overpriced.

Cheers. Did know that tho, it's why I drink it. But there's Cava and there's Cava. Freixenet is one of the better ones, so I really should know how to pronounce it in case of emergency. And ta to afters for the pronounciation hints.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Free-jenet.


Almonds.

I say all-monds they say arlmonds.

 

[Titanic]

Ar-monds

 

[Titanic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond

"The almond is the fruit of Prunus dulcis (formerly classified as Prunus amygdalus, or Amygdalus communis), belonging to the Prunoideae subfamily of the family Rosaceae. The word probably comes from the Old French almande or alemande, late Latin amandola, derived through a form amingdola from the Greek amugdale, an almond; the al- for a- is probably due to a confusion with the Arabic article al, the word having first dropped the a- as in the Italian form mandorla; the British pronunciation a-mond and the modern French amande show the true form of the word. Some English speakers however do pronounce it "al-mond"."

 

[Superphil]

frej ee nay is how some people say it, I don't.

 

[Willow]

Your safe with cava

Unless you go to Fiji, where cava is a mildly hallucinogenic drink made from cava root .