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.
YAKKA
Etymology
Noun
yakka (uncountable)
(Australia) Work.
Usage notes
Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.
Verb
yakka
(Australia) To work.
Anagrams
• kayak
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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