Latte became popular again, prepared with espresso and steamed milk. "Caffè latte" started replacing this term around 1996–97, but both names exist side by side, more often more similar than different in preparation. Coffee menus worldwide use a number of spelling variations for words to indicate coffee and milk, often using incorrect accents or a combination of French and Italian terms. Italian is "caffellatte" (the standard form; "caffelatte" is a Northern Italian variation), contracted from "caffè latte", (with a grave accent over the e), while French is "café au lait" (with an acute accent); Spanish is "café con leche" and Portuguese
Latte "Caffè latte", "Milchkaffee", "café au lait" and "café con leche" are domestic terms of traditional ways of drinking coffee, usually as part of breakfast in the home. Public cafés in Europe and the US it seems have no mention of the terms until the 20th century, although "Kapuziner" is mentioned in Austrian coffee houses in Vienna and Trieste in the 2nd half of 1700s as "coffee with cream, spices and sugar" (being the origin of the Italian cappuccino). According to the "Oxford English Dictionary", the term "caffè latte" was first used in English in 1867 by William Dean Howells in