In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GRAPHEME
character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; “the Greek alphabet has 24 characters”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grapheme (plural graphemes)
A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
Source: Wiktionary
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ERASE
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
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