In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PHOSPHATISE
Etymology
Verb
phosphatise (third-person singular simple present phosphatises, present participle phosphatising, simple past and past participle phosphatised)
Alternative form of phosphatize
Source: Wiktionary
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24 May 2025
EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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