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Tea or chai? The one word that tells you which ship got there first

Tea or chai? The one word that tells you which ship got there first

Almost every language calls this drink one of two names. The split is a map of 17th-century trade routes.

The word for lemon is wrong in almost every European language

The word for lemon is wrong in almost every European language

How lemon and lime got swapped, confused, and mistranslated as they traveled from Arabic into European languages – and why climate decides which fruit gets the simpler name.