coffee pods

[Mark Mandel]

A new term to me, but Google reports "about 434,000" hits. These are the
sealed paper containers of measured amounts of ground coffee for use in
coffee makers.

BTW, one page, titled "Make Your Own Coffee Pods" (
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/coffeepods/), had this variation on "too/how
ADJ of a N":

    Be careful not to use too big of filter or to make sloppy folds.

If I were dictating text and saw that, I would assume a misrecognition of
"too big a filter" /tubIg@'fIlt at r/: [@f] interpreted as /@vf/.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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