In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
AFFRICATION
affrication
(noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
affrication (countable and uncountable, plural affrications)
(phonetics, uncountable, of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound.
(countable) A particular instance of such change.
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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