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Coffee fails the test in my locale which is interestingly the supposed origin[0] of the drink/plant. We call it Buna in Ethiopia and it's a big symbol/part of t
by dman-os 3y ago
Coffee fails the test in my locale which is interestingly the supposed origin[0] of the drink/plant. We call it Buna in Ethiopia and it's a big symbol/part of the national identity not to mention the most important export commodity.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee
- borlanco 3y agoHere in Spain it's 7:43am, and I'm enjoying my daily cup of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe right now.
- kawhah 3y agoThis sort of makes sense, almost everyone else in the world learnt of coffee directly or indirectly via Arab-speaking people and so use their name for it, but Ethopians had it first and so have their own word for it.
- slim 3y agointerestingly in my locale the language is arabic and one of the names of coffee is "Bun"