In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
VELARIZE
Etymology
Verb
velarize (third-person singular simple present velarizes, present participle velarizing, simple past and past participle velarized)
(phonology) To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.
(phonology) To replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar.
Source: Wiktionary
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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