![]() An accent is often added by mistake when we use the word in English, perhaps meaning to suggest that the word is French. Note that in the correct spelling of “latte”, the Italian word for milk, there is no accent over the “e”. ![]() The term “latte” is an abbreviation of the Italian “caffelatte” meaning “coffee (and) milk”. Mocha was the major marketplace in the world for coffee until the 1600s, and gave its name to the Mocha coffee bean, which in turn gave it’s name to the mocha brown color, and to the flavor of coffee infused with chocolate. Mocha is a port city in Yemen on the Red Sea and was once the principal port for the capital city of Sana’a. Famously, Thomas Jefferson used a polygraph to preserve copies of letters that he wrote to correspondents. Back then, a polygraph was a mechanical device use to make multiple copies as something was written or drawn. This usage began in 1921, although the term had been around since the end of the 18th century. We are most familiar with the term “polygraph” as the generic name for a lie detector instrument. And, Indonesia has an amazing 17,508 islands. ![]() Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, and is the country with the largest population of Muslims. The name “Allah” comes from the Arabic “al-” and “ilah”, meaning “the” and “deity”. Also, the French phrase “bleu de Genes” (meaning “blue of Genoa”) gives us our word “jeans”. The French phrase “de Nimes” (meaning “from Nimes”) gives us the word “denim”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossĭenim fabric originated in Nimes in France.
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