In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PEDANTICIZE
Etymology
Verb
pedanticize (third-person singular simple present pedanticizes, present participle pedanticizing, simple past and past participle pedanticized)
(intransitive) To be a pedant.
(transitive) To make pedantic.
Source: Wiktionary
Word of the Day
10 January 2025
INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
Coffee Trivia
