Tall latte

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Sep 12 23:56:01 UTC 2013


On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
>
>> "regular coffee"
>
>
> In Boston, "coffee regular"!
>
> --
That might be the NYC version too, since I'm mostly familiar with the term in the exchange:

"I'd like a coffee please."
"Regular?"
"Sure."


[to self] "Oops, forgot again."

I think it sometimes happens on airplanes too.

LH

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