The word chauffeur originates from the 14^th century France termed Chauffer, “pronounced Shoffer” which literally means “make it hot”. French first used chauffeur of workers who tended the fires in forges in the 17th century. With the advent of steam engines to power boats and trains in the 19th century, chauffeur was extended to “fireman” or “stoker,” who managed the fire which heats the water whose steam makes the vehicle move.

Steam engine technology was also used in some early cars, whose burning fuel the drivers–or chauffeurs, as the French came to call them—had to mind. Steam technology died off in automobiles in the early 20th century, but chauffeur is still running, if in its specialized sense. In Modern French, a chauffeur can name a bus or taxi driver—professionals, similar to the word’s English descendent. But lets get back to why shoffer over chauffeur?

The word chauffeur is not easy to spell among many outside of transportation industry. Many internet users spell it shoffer, shofer, shoufer, or shoffar, others go for chaufur or chauffar. The word shoffer and chauffeur are the same when it comes to pronunciation although the correct spellings are chauffeur.

The search engines have realized to understand someone using the word shofer is actually looking for a chauffeur. 

What about a female chauffeur? Female chauffeurs are called Chauffeuse, “pronounced as Shoff e use”.

Now in English we spell shoffer as chauffeur, however in Spanish we write shofer and pronounce is as shofer.

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