Random Silly Grins

Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took - Sam Cooke and the Children of the Maga

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This taught me the word “øl.”

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Öl, olut & bjór.

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bjór (Icelandic) = beoir (Irish)

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Love your local spiders! :spider:

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(Or should I post this to the Map Library? Or About Languages? Or the food and drink topic???)

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That’s interesting; the Kazakh word for beer is:

сыра (syra)

which is similar to the Hungarian word Sör.

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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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