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.
FRENCHIFY
Frenchify
(verb) become French in appearance or character; “This restaurant has Frenchified”
Frenchify
(verb) make French in appearance or character; “let’s Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
Frenchify (third-person singular simple present Frenchifies, present participle Frenchifying, simple past and past participle Frenchified)
(transitive) To make (something) (more) French in appearance, form, character or manners.
(intransitive) To become (more) French.
Source: Wiktionary
French"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frenchified; p. pr. & vb. n. Frenchifying.] Etym: [French + -fy.]
Definition: To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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