Is it mocha or mokka?

[Lazytakeawaymum]

Went into M&S today for a mocha and I was told by the lady that served me that it’s mokka? Have I been pronouncing it wrong my whole life? 🤣 I pronounce it mo cha

I don't think M&S staff are paid to correct their customers speech.
What happened to the customer always being right? 😒

Oh dear OP, I did have a giggle that you've been pronouncing it mo cha your whole life 😆

Latte is pronounced lar tay where I live.

Mocha! That's made me smile. At least you know now. Hope it was tasty!

Easily done OP, I wouldn't bat an eye at anyone pronouncing it your way. People have understood what you meant until now so I wouldn't worry.

A Mokka is a kind of coffee pot, the one you put on the hob.

Mocha was originally an African coffee but has become a name for a mix of chocolate, coffee and cream.

Latte is just milk, it should not exist as a type of coffee, it should be caffè e latte or caffè latte.

Please do not get me started on panini / panino.

English is a wonderful, adaptable language, but it does seem to have gone around the world, mugging other languages for perfectly good words and changing the meaning either slightly or a lot.

A Mokka is a kind of coffee pot, the one you put on the hob.

I thought it was a model of car made by Vauxhall. 🤷‍♂️

Italian purist here

mocha = mocka
latte = latté (not lar-tay!)
panini is plural (panino singular) -> un panino, due panini
bruschetta = broosketta
ciabatta = cha-batta

One of my pet hates is 'pomodorini tomatoes'. Pomodorini = little tomatoes, so pomodorini tomatoes = little tomatoes tomatoes.

Yes. Fortunately my husband has his coffee black, so I only ever need to ask for one cappuccino 😀

I’ve got one of those, much prefer it to fancy machines that take up so much space and cost ££££.

Ch is k in Italian. And extra fun c is pronounced ch.

I always said moe-ca….dh kept correcting me, so now I say moe-ca cos it winds him up

@ReadtheReviews Ch is k in Italian. And extra fun c is pronounced ch.
only if it precedes e or i

I moved north of the border and had to move to mokka as no one understood me 😥

Re panini:

In Italian:
Panino = one sandwich
Panini = multiple sandwiches

In English:
Panini = one sandwich of a particular type that's toasted.

The meaning is different - the word has been adopted but not directly translated.

Similarly, we say broccoli and don't talk about a piece of broccolo.

😂

But is that a cappukkino? 🙂

Yup. Hence bruschetta ain't bru-shetta, it's bru-sketta.

So what have you been saying op and how often?

Moo-cha or moh-cha?

Kappukkino with kokolate

Thank you Colleen, I shall try to reframe panini in my mind, as you recommend. So are we actually asking for two paninis now? Interestingly, autocorrect didn't like that, so presumably the declension works like "sheep".

I once sat opposite a woman on a train who told me about her love of 'cabby-atty' bread.

One of my favorite muggings is courgette and zucchini, both mean small marrow but the English speaking world uses one or the other.