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espresso
by tempodox 3y ago
espresso
- notnaut 3y agoWhile it’s almost never useful to correct irregularities in spellings and pronunciations, this is a particularly poor correction. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/espresso-vs-expresso-usage-history https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/espresso-vs-expresso...
- CoastalCoder 3y agoMuphry's Law [0] strikes again! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
- BirAdam 3y agoBoth versions find their origins in Latin: exprimere. Both have the same meaning. More importantly, the purpose of language is communicate. If the sender and recipient achieve mutual understanding then language has been used effectively. Spelling and grammar are meant to be descriptive and not prescriptive.
- stephenitis 3y agoI started to think about this. I feel like I lean toward pronouncing this as expresso more often. I think it's a slightly southern expression in language that I hear when people say Axe Ask Axe Ess Ex
- stephenitis 3y agoThanks Went from a autocorrection of expression and lazily went back to edit into expresso.