Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PHONOGRAMS
Noun
phonograms
plural of phonogram
Anagrams
• monographs, nomographs
Source: Wiktionary
PHONOGRAM
Pho"no*gram, n. Etym: [Phono- + -gram.]
1. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
2. A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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