An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ASSIBILATE
assibilate
(verb) change into a sibilant; “In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese”
assibilate
(verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
assibilate (third-person singular simple present assibilates, present participle assibilating, simple past and past participle assibilated)
(linguistics, phonetics) To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds.
(linguistics, phonetics) To change by assibilation.
Source: Wiktionary
As*sib"i*late, v. t. Etym: [L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss.]
Definition: To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
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