Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
APHAERESIS
aphaeresis, apheresis
(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in ‘coon’ for ‘raccoon’ or ‘till’ for ‘until’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
aphaeresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphaereses)
(UK, Canadian) Alternative spelling of apheresis
Source: Wiktionary
A*phær"e*sis, n. Etym: [L.]
Definition: Same as Apheresis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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