Random Silly Grins

I think the Manx jough is cognate with Irish deoch = “drink”.

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For Spain is has cerveza, can’t speak for the Spanish but in Latin America is not unusual for people to sometimes use Birra in casual conversations instead of saying cerveza. Probably has to do with Italian immigration to Latin America :man_shrugging:

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I think there’s definitely a lot of etymological shift that happens. English is primarily a “beer” language in modern times (in terms of which word serves as the most generic signifier) but a few hundred years ago it was primarily an “ale” language.

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“Turkeys, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.”

By popular belief 1524, when Protestants from the Netherlands brought their practice of flavouring beer with hops.

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The Finns …

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So Bezos’s wedding was where?

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That’s the one with Baby Yoda, right?

Or is it the one where the rock gets rolled away right before Jesus shouts “Nooooooo”?

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Our lord and savior!

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My favorite scene was was the lightsaber duel between Jesus and Satan on Tatooine.

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“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” –Jesus?

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And that scene where Lazarus gets kicked into a sarlacc pit and shows up alive in the next movie? So good

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I would follow a Chewbacca-based religion without hesitation.

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…Wait, I’m not sure we’ve given enough thought to where all this ends up.

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