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Spelling, etc; dates

The spelling in this article -- quotations aside, of course -- seems to vary between American and British. The dates seem more DMY than MDY.

How about standardizing on "Oxford English" spelling and DMY? (Again, quotations aside, of course.) -- Hoary (talk) 12:06, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Well it should be one or the other. I'd prefer BritEng/DMY of course, but up to you really. Ceoil (talk) 21:21, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
Thanks, Ceoil. Since "Oxford English" (i) is British,* (ii) perhaps doesn't look as odd to Americans as the other British kind-of-system with "realise", "realisation", etc, and (iii) happens to come rather easily to me, I'll start standardizing to it some time in the next few days. And I'll start standardizing to DMY too. Unless there are objections before then. Not touching quotes, of course. * The Briticizing is for you, Ceoil. Me, I'm "agnostic" on this trivial matter. -- Hoary (talk) 04:17, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

"Further reading"

I'm about to delete the section "Further reading", which contained:

  • Marie-France Boyer; photographs by Eric Morin (1994) The French Café. London: Thames & Hudson.
  • Homsi, Nada; Hendawi, Hamza; Mahmoud, Sinan; Oweis, Khaled Yacoub (24 February 2023). "Coffee houses of the Middle East: inside the region's historic cauldrons of culture". The National. Abu Dhabi. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  • Robert Hume. "Percolating Society", Irish Examiner, 27 April 2017. p. 13.
  • Nautiyal, J. J. (2016). "Aesthetic and affective experiences in coffee shops: a Deweyan engagement with ordinary affects in ordinary spaces". Education & Culture, 32(2), 99–118.
  • Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You through the Day. New York: Parragon Books, 1989. ISBN 1-56924-681-5.
  • Standage, Tom (2006). A History of the World in Six Glasses, New York: Walker & Company, ISBN 0-8027-1447-1. Includes two chapters on "Coffee in the Age of Reason".
  • Withington, Phil. "Public and Private Pleasures." History Today (June 2020) 70#6 pp. 16–18. Covers London 1630 to 1800.
  • Withington, Phil. "Where was the coffee in early modern England?" Journal of Modern History 92.1 (2020): 40–75.
  • Ahmet Yaşar, "Osmanlı Şehir Mekânları: Kahvehane Literatürü / Ottoman Urban Spaces: An Evaluation of Literature on Coffeehouses", TALİD Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, 6, 2005, 237–256. Abstract.

This article already has so many references (many with links) that a "Further reading" section (mostly without) does not strike me as useful -- other perhaps than to editors and potential editors, who may read it here. -- Hoary (talk) 04:18, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh god trim please. Ceoil (talk) 04:20, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Done already! -- Hoary (talk) 05:26, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

"grammar mistakes"

456jabar, your summary for this edit of yours was "grammar mistakes". Presumably this was shorthand not for "making grammar mistakes" but instead for "fixing grammar mistakes". In this edit, you make half a dozen discrete changes. Please choose any one of these changes, and explain how it fixed a grammar mistake.

The reason I ask is that I don't see that you fixed a single grammar mistake. And the matter of grammar aside, you don't even seem to have made any improvement. (As an example, changing "drinks" to "beverages" is no grammatical or semantic change; it merely adds pomposity.) -- Hoary (talk) 04:50, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

No response, so I reverted the edit. -- Hoary (talk) 22:43, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Title

Why is the title coffeehouse and not café? Js asking Antonkneeyo (talk) 18:32, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

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