Beigel or bagel?
I'm a bagel person. My mother is a beigel person -- that's how it was pronounced in London's East End when she was a girl: she still talks about the Beigel Lady who sat outside Johnny Isaac's Fish and Chip shop (owned and run by my great-uncle Mark and great-aunt Rosie), and she can't ever quite get used to the American way of pronouncing it having taken over.











