# Coffee Names

Originally published: 2014-11-23
Canonical URL: /2014/Nov/coffee-names/

"Hi, could I have a grande vanilla iced-coffee?"

"And your name?"

"Zack."

"Is that _Zach_ with an _ch_ or _Zack_ with a _ck_?"

"You know, I've even seen it done with [just a _c_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Efron). But really, isn't this what we have regular expressions for?"

"What?"

"May I?"

The barista hands over the pen and cup, whereupon the customer writes:

___/Zac[hk]?/___

"There. Now you _can't possibly_ be wrong!"