In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
IOTACISMS
Noun
iotacisms
plural of iotacism
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IOTACISM
I*o"ta*cism, n. Etym: [Gr. iotacisme. See Iota.]
Definition: The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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