According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
AMBAGES
ambages
(noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ambages pl (plural only)
(archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
(archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
Source: Wiktionary
Am*ba"ges, n. pl. Etym: [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.]
Definition: A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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