In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
SYNALEPHA
Etymology
Noun
synalepha (countable and uncountable, plural synalephas)
The suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.
The melding into a single syllable of two vowels from two different syllables.
Source: Wiktionary
Syn`a*le"pha, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. synaloepha, Gr. (Gram.)
Definition: A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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