If, like me, your pronunciation of foreign words is tentative at best, a proposed night at La Boheme can be a tongue twister. When recruiting friends for a drink last week, the exchange went something like:
"Let’s go to La Bo-heem tonight… er, La Bo-he-me… you know, cocktails, absinthe, chilled Parisian feel, the only place in town where the bouncer wears a beret?"
"Oh, that French place on Grote Street? I think you’ll find it’s pronounced La-Bow-Em."
Blush.
But who gives a stuff about linguistics when you have endless cocktails (try Absolut Hunk – even the lads love that one) and sweet sweet music amidst an elaborate-yet-cosy old-world décor? Friends forget all about your failed French when you stumble into this secret. And now I know how to pronounce it correctly anyway.
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