Hey, Buffo!

Many years ago, I took conversational Greek through the adult continuing education program at the community college. The teacher was simultaneously both appalled and amused to learn that my brothers and I routinely refer to each other as buffo. For the non-Greek speakers reading this, buffo is from where we get the English word "buffoon." 

It's a word that we learned from our yia yia, who used it with love and affection in a teasing manner. It's why and how we boys still use it with each other.

If that former Greek teacher of mine saw this photo of John and me - the father of the bride and the minister - at my niece Ashley's wedding, maybe she'd understand why our yia yia used buffo so liberally!