Re: Good bread, good meat, good God, let's eat

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From: Dan Abel
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:47

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In article <b2135r$jnj$1@news.Stanford.EDU>, meg@steam.Stanford.EDU (Meg
Worley) wrote:

> I mentioned:
> >> the University of Redundancy Cafe (aka Coffee Cafe) 
> 
> Sally DelValle writes:
> >Meg, we can't get enough of your $15.00 words, but isn't "Coffee Cake"
> >an oxy-moron rather than a redundancy? Just curious.
> 
> Coffee *Cafe*, not Coffee Cake.
> 
> Now, an argument could be made that the relationship between
> American diner coffee and zee beste Frahnche cafe verges on
> the oxymoronic, but I'm guessing that wasn't where you were
> going with this.

My father grew up in a little town in Kansas.  They had a cafe in town. 
It was a one syllable word, sort of like "safe" with a "c" instead of an
"s".  Some stranger came into town and asked about the cafe, pronouncing
it with two syllables.  They laughed him right out of town.

-- 
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
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dabel@sonic.net

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From: dabel@sonic.net (Dan Abel)
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Subject: Re: Good bread, good meat, good God, let's eat
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