Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
WE
Proper noun
WE
Initialism of Western Europe.
Anagrams
• EW, ew
Etymology
Pronoun
we first-person plural, nominative case (objective case us, reflexive ourselves, or, singular, ourself, possessive (with noun) our, possessive (without noun) ours)
(personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
(personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
(personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)
(personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
(personal, often considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
Determiner
we
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
Anagrams
• EW, ew
Source: Wiktionary
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19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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