Re: the pronunciation of a certain fruity drink...
Aug 1st, 2003, 08:47 AM
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Just to muddy the waters further, I've heard this pronounced by the English as dai-KER-ry or dai-KEER-ry.
I've always thought the variation in pronunciation was regional rather than generational.
Credit for inventing the drink usually goes to Jennings Cox, an American working close to Daiquiri, Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. Legend has it the local rum was so rough, that he added lime juice and sugar when he served it to guests.
I've always thought the variation in pronunciation was regional rather than generational.
Credit for inventing the drink usually goes to Jennings Cox, an American working close to Daiquiri, Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. Legend has it the local rum was so rough, that he added lime juice and sugar when he served it to guests.
Aug 1st, 2003, 09:27 AM
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Here's another Bostonian lifer weighing in. Its generational thing. In my family, the old ladies (70 and above) call them dike-eries. The everyone else call them dack-eries. The old ladies also never had the frozen version of the drink. I know I've never had any other kind. The old ladies also like their Tom Collins and prefered chablis. I'll take a Madris or a chardonney any day of the week. But even that dates me to the '80s/90s.
