[LMB] Re: CJC Drink was Coffee and SF, was Coffee mugs OT:

[Laura Gallagher]

I wrote:
> > I remember how embarrassed I was on a reread of the Chanur series
> > by C.J. Cherryh, the first time I mentally said the name of the
> > alien favorite beverage - "gfi" - out loud.  It'd gone right
> > past me the first time.

Martin wrote:
> Sorry, but it still goes past me.
> Now that I see that it is indeed "gfi" - I have tried speaking "gfi" -
> I think that I am pronouncing it as "Jify" as in quick.

Try saying "Guh - Fi"  Emphasis on the Guh. 

Say it a few times fast, and it will sound pretty much like
"Cough-Fee".  "Coffee"

Laura Gallagher