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Yes, and using precisely the same logic, Starbucks invented the coffee shop.
by CPLX 12y ago
Yes, and using precisely the same logic, Starbucks invented the coffee shop.
- dredmorbius 12y agoSlight uptick, but no, your trivially verified premise is in fact false: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe%2Ccaffe%2Ccoffee+shop&year_start=1840&year_end=2014&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccafe%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccaffe%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccoffee%20shop%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe%2Ccaffe%2... Though the pre-1820 popularity of "cafe" is an interesting story itself I'll leave to the enterprising reader: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe&year_start=1500&year_end=1840&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccafe%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe&year_star...