The form of “coffee” from masculine is not typical for the rules of the Russian language. About this feature of this word RIA news Doctor of Philosophical Science, Chief Researcher at the Russian Language Institute named after Vinogradov Ras Maria Kalenchuk.
Experts explain that in the vast majority of borrowed nouns, not notice in Russian, there is an average type. She quoted as an example of words such as cocoa, highways, jackets.
Kalenchuk also attracted attention to the fact that a hundred years ago, from coffee could have a shape of the average type. For example, we saw Bunin, who was considered the defender of Russian pure speech, he had morning coffee, delicious coffee – that was 100 years ago, she said. Experts noted that this word had a Southern family, because in the 19th century, he had a form of coffee coffee.
Earlier, Kalenchuk said that the stress in the word that the calls would change and would fall into the first syllable. In her opinion, the fact that he is currently on the left and right, calls, is not a caller, nothing is accidental.