Word: friese
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A woman I used to know told me she made a point of mispronouncing words in fine restaurants, because she knew it drove her husband crazy. "What's this gunnotchy?" she would ask the waiter, pointing to gnocchi on the menu. Once she even pronounced "steak" to rhyme with "leak...
Summers, He's What's For Dinner (May 4, 2004). Do you want fries with that? University President Lawrence H. Summers does. He’ll also have honey mustard, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato and cole slaw.
We fear massive terrorism plots, killer strains of bacteria in our food and lurking predators, but we seldom think of heart disease when we order fries. Thrill-seeking readers appreciated our analysis of the threats we face every day, which--surprise!--don't include a bungee jump or deadly snakes...
Others might worry about the plan’s potential to deteriorate students’ diets by allowing them to live (if they so choose to) on fast foods such as pizza, French fries, and pastries. While certainly an understandable concern, students who would resort to this unhealthy diet are...
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. Six Muslims traveling from a religious conference were thrown off...