In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MONOPHTHONGISE
Etymology
Verb
monophthongise (third-person singular simple present monophthongises, present participle monophthongising, simple past and past participle monophthongised)
Alternative spelling of monophthongize
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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