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.
MYALL
Etymology 1
Noun
myall (plural myalls)
(obsolete, Australian Aboriginal) A stranger; an ignorant person.
(Australia) An Aborigine living according to tradition.
Adjective
myall (comparative more myall, superlative most myall)
(AU) According to Aboriginal tradition; traditionally indigenous. [from 19th c.]
Etymology 2
Aboriginal, perhaps a transferred use of Etymology 1, above.
Noun
myall (countable and uncountable, plural myalls)
Any of various Australian acacias, especially the weeping myall, Acacia pendula, or the wood of such trees.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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