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Oh no, there's a Seven Seas advert coming up that refers to "omega three". Please ignore any puffs that don't at least get it right as "omega minus three".

I have noticed 'homage' frequently pronounced as the French 'hommage'. Unless you are speaking French, why change the perfectly good English word? Affectation and pretentiousness come to mind.

It's a relief to find one's nitpicking views supported, this time as long ago as 2006:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2006/10/accent-on-homage.html

It irritates me too, ph. A year or so ago I sent an email to Radio 3 asking them to stop pronouncing it in the French way, a habit they had been developing and which they never used to do. A lot of English hymns and poetry will not work unless homage is pronounced in the way we're more used to.
I've looked at that link you sent and I'm not entirely sure the root is homo for man. The OED gives a long list of associated words and dense etymology which I can't be bothered to read closely this early in the morning but it seems a late Latin word homagy is the source, which may come from homo, but the earliest recorded usage in English is with respect to a woman, not a man.
It seems homage in the French manner is popular in the arts world, when a work of art is intended as a tribute to someone. Arty people can be a very affected lot sometimes.

And on another topic, there's a letter in the Daily Telegraph today about not being able to get an all-day breakfast after 11am.

I wonder whether one of you lot wrote it. ;-)

It was suggested by Simplesimon the other day that
I enquire if the market café serves Camp Coffee. So I called in this morning and asked Cassie about it.
“Never heard of it”, she said, “Do you mean camp in an affected sort of way?”
“I think it is the people who drink these fancy coffees that are affected, rather than the coffee itself”, I replied.
“I suppose it could be the sort of coffee that cowboys drink around the camp fire” she suggested. “Anyway, I‘ve got the beans.”
“What, you’ve got Camp Coffee beans”, I said excitedly.
“No, I’ve got baked beans, that’s what cowboys eat isn’t it?

JigJag - brilliant! We weren’t joking about Camp Coffee by the way -Google it - it has a Wikipedia entry and describes the bottle exactly as we remember it.
Regards to the lovely Cassie - don’t forget to check the lovely Samantha out too.

Simplesimon
Thanks, glad you liked the report. I will be in town a few times before Christmas and will visit the market cafe. I forgot to ask Cassie about Samantha but she does sound wonderful.

Orson
Thanks. I couldn't find the letter in my edition of the Telegraph today, but I would be interested to read it. I didn't write it, but it is interesting that somebody else is having trouble with breakfasts.

Paul, Orson
Thanks. I am very irritated by the BBC's constant mispronunciation of Kiev as "Keev". It has always been 2 syllables in English. We dont say Wien or Moskva, as locals do. We have even had the nonsensical "Chicken Keev" on Masterchef, but James Martin got it right on Saturday.

Jigjag, I thought it was time the lovely Cassie was given further
exposure to the wider public. Accordingly, she (and you) are duly part of a clue generated for Clueless 609. 🤔😳