Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FUNNEST
Adjective
funnest
(nonstandard) superlative degree of fun
Usage notes
While funnest is a regular superlative of the adjective fun, the superlative most fun is much more common. The use of fun as an adjective is itself still often seen as informal or casual and to be avoided in formal writing, and this would apply equally to the superlative form. Merriam-Webster gives fun as an adjective without comment, and states that funner and funnest are "sometimes" used.
Source: Wiktionary
FUN
Fun, n. Etym: [Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.]
Definition: Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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