The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
SUPERCEDE
Etymology
Verb
supercede (third-person singular simple present supercedes, present participle superceding, simple past and past participle superceded)
Misspelling of supersede.
Usage notes
• The form supercede is commonly considered a misspelling of supersede, since it results from confusion between Latin cedere (“give up, yield”) and sedere (“to sit”). The original Latin word was supersedere (“to sit above”), which continued in Italian as soprassedere, but the ‘c’ spelling began to be used in Middle French, appeared in English as early as the 1400s, and is still sometimes found. The fact that 'supersede' is the only English word ending in -sede, while several end in -cede, also encourages confusion.
• Most dictionaries do not include this spelling; a few list it as a variant, sometimes identified as a misspelling. A search of general dictionaries at Onelook All Dictionaries finds 4 instances of "supercede" excluding this one (with one flagged as misspelling), and 24 of "supersede".
Source: Wiktionary
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