“They pronounced it lanny-yap. It is Spanish—so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune, the first day; heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth. It has a restricted meaning, but I think the people spread it out a little when they choose… If the waiter in the restaurant stumbles and spills a gill of coffee down the back of your neck, he says, ‘For lagniappe, sah,’ and gets you another cup without extra charge.” –Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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