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.
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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UNMARRIED
(adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state; “unmarried men and women”; “unmarried life”; “sex and the single girl”; “single parenthood”; “are you married or single?”
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